Ok, here is the FanimeCon 2006 feed back thread for you people.Post your comments concerning what you liked and didn't like about the con. Please keep it civil, thank you. :D
I didn't like the artist room. I seriously liked it much better when they were just on the second floor of the convention center. It allowed people just wandering to see the art and buy stuff as opposed to having to specifically go into a room to find it. I'm sure the artists got better sales last year, too.
Having Hentai night every night was great this time!
Next time have it a 24 hour adult only room.. hehe
LOVED MUSICFEST this year.. Thank you so much YesJapan/Japanfiles/J-List for the lineup! Yea for sponsors! And no, I was not payed to say this..hehe
The schedules were much harder to read this year. It was just too small and there wasn't enough contrast with the shaded boxes and black text. Maybe it would be better if they were printed landscape as opposed to portrait?
Also, I think it would be better if a schedule was included in the bag with the convention program as opposed to being in a stack on the tables in the registration area. I know I can't be the only person who totally didn't notice them and walked straight into the convention after getting my badge.
Having Artist's Alley in a separate room was a little weird. It made the convention floor seem awfully empty and the artist's room was kind of stuffy. It was uncomfortable to be in there for too long.
this year was pretty much amazing. I really have no complaints, except about the masquerade.
SO MANY WALK ONS. I think that in upcoming years, if we have that many walk ons, we should have them all go on at the same time.... kind of like a pageant or something. Because I got bored.
1. This was my first time going to the Masquerade and I was upset by all the people just going up there and showing off their costumes. By the time the second half started we were already wanting to leave. Even a small stupid skit would be better than just going up there, posing, and then walking of stage.
2. I liked the artists being in a room this year. Last year I COULDN'T even look at anything because the hallways were so crowded I'd get shoved out of the way. This time I could actually BUY SOMETHING!
3. People need to keep a better eye on the rave/dance. There were seriously three couples we caught having sex in there IN ONE NIGHT!
4. Stage 0 was an awesome idea! It was great just to be able to sit down and watch something or catch something going on while you're wandering around.
5. THE GIRL WITH THE PURPLE HAIR SHOULD NOT SPEAK AT THE "HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS PANEL!" She would not even let the other panelists speak and had no idea what she was talking about. In fact, we left 20 minutes in after we heard one of the three other panelists say "Don't worry he's not going to get to talk any ways" when the guy was on his cell phone AT THE PANEL TABLE!! On a side note though, the how to talk to boys panel was hilarious
6. Having all the games in one room was great, but gave us nothing to do until 12 on friday because nothing was open! Perhaps the game room can open up earlier next con while we're waiting.
That's mainly it and all in all my group had a great time. Fanime was a blast this year and you'll definitly see us all again in '07.
I'll put up more later, but here's one that bit me a couple times...
I know you guys like to have a lot of different media formats, but you have to make sure that you have the machinery to work with it -- even if you get a bit submarined. Happened to the room I wanted to watch Friday morning and again for Midnight Madness.
I loved Stage Zero. It kept things moving and really grabbed my attention, just when I thought there was nothing to do; Stage Zero was doing something random. Loooooooooooved it. Hope to see it again in the future!
Really liked how Artist Alley was in another room. It wasn't throw in the middle of the con floor like last year, where last year I had artists having a hard time hearing me and there wasn't much space to look around. This year with them being in the new room they had space to show off their goods. I felt like I missed out on alot of artists last year and this year I did over 25 sketch commisions.
The Swap Meet in the gaming room was just *_* THANK YOU. awesome.
And in the gaming room, the plushie machine, freakin' AWESOME. If that had more of those I would have easily spent all my cash on that.
More USA Musume, PLEASE.
AMV's the set up/presentation was PERFECT, but there should be some sort of rule where a anime can only be used once. I saw (to me) so many video's will Hellsing and FMA and Azumanga... Ugh. I would KILL for some old school anime being used.
What I didn't like? I'm all for Yaoi and I've been a fan of it since 97' but there was just SO MUCH OF IT. O_o. Ugh, it seems like everyone was selling yaoi doujinshi. I know it's popular so there really isn't much I can say about that. I'd easily pay TOP $ for a decent het doujinshi.
The Cosplay event. So many jokes about ninja's and such on. Not everyone likes ninja's. But again, what can I do? And the walk on's. LAME. Half of the time, they didn't come close to the stage and for someone sitting on the sidelines in the stands, I didn't see them.
J-list was really tame. I was expecting more. Alot more.
maybe have two seperate events for walk-ons and skits? i honestly do not like skits (though i did a performance myself... xD) and having the skits and walk-ons together makes it go really long and makes it borning, i think. :/ also, the announcer guy was obnoxious and made way too many jokes about the stage ninjas. >> (and not only did he stumble through my group name and costume, but he said my name, mispronounced, mind you, alsmot as a side note. he sounded really confused and he should have asked beforehand at least how to pronounce my name! >.<)
slo, i did not like the dance being in that room. it smelled really bad, and that was just friday night. i cannot imagine how it was on later nights. >.< (and the music was too loud for that small of a space, i think...)
but enough complaints. i think that the con this year went really well, despite a few flaws. :P
EDIT: there was also a serious lack of amano. :P:P:P *hinthint*
This year was definitely better. It was better organized, and moving the artists over to their own room was a good idea in terms of flow-of-traffic (i.e. it was easier for people to get to where they were going). Stage Zero was also a good idea and I'd like to see that remain a regular part of the con.
Schedule layout and printing could've been better though. Instead of cramming two pages of info into one page with an illegible typeface (was there a problem with fonts between the computer it was created on and the computer it was printed from?), it should've been a double-sided sheet for each day, one side with the day's morning schedule and the other side with the evening one.
Tabletop gaming should get a bigger room as well. That was way too small a room for that kind of thing, and I saw some of the gaming spill out onto other nearby areas as a result.
OMG IT WAS SOOO GEWD!!!
scheduals were hard to read obviously but thats ok :3, music fest was good tooooo~
KAMIJO OMG <333333333 I loooved the concert ^____^ and i got a hug from him heheee
the dance was a little too stuffy x: it would have been nice for some AC in there~
and it was a good idea to put that border for ID checking for the yaoi and hentai rooms :3
Exhibit Hall 3 got it goin' on. Nice choice to move E-Gaming and Swap Meet there.
Also, although I didn't stick around, Stage Zero was nice.
Thumbs Up:
-Artists' Alley Room. I was dubious at first, but it really allowed for artists to have space to show off, and a place to draw attention. Having each of the doors be two-directional was a huge factor in making successful, though, because then you could just wander through there on the way to your destination, no matter which direction you were going, as opposed to walking circles like for the dealer's room. It was also really nice to be able to avoid the artists tables, especially the artists who were aggressively advertising their wares with guilt trips and all. Oh, and having the autograph sessions in there was excellent, since there was always plenty of room for the long lines.
-Asian Film: The asian cinema rooms have become one of my favorite parts of Fanime Con, because I can walk in any time day or night, and find a great movie I've never seen - probably not even heard of - and enjoy it; better yet, there's no hentai so they're a great place to hang out for those of us who aren't into that sort of thing.
-E-Gaming Room: Putting the arcade, the consoles, and the LAN in that one huge room was ingenious. There was easily enough space for each event, tons of events going on simultaneously within seconds of each other, and it made the room a one-stop go for interactive entertainment, plus there was still room left over for extra things like the swap meet or "pikaball", and most of all, no rampant BO.
-Stage 1: The dance was much better in the small room, where crowds are possible, and having the J-rock bands playing at various times was also great because it gave people a chance to see some if they were busy during MusicFest, as well as being a nice place to stop off during downtime. The only problem was ventilation - that room was, unfortunately, blasting hot, and very stuffy - but compared to last year's dance, it was a small sacrifice.
-Centralized Panel Room: Having all the panels in a single consistent and central location was great - really easy; no time spent trying to locate the right one at the right time like I've done last year.
Do Better:
-Stage Zero: This is an idea with great potential. However, it's going to take a little refinement to make it truly good. Some problems with the stage: (1) it was usually hard to see the screen, between problems with pillars and ambient light, (2) the game shows, prize giveaways, and whatnot going on were consistently run by annoying announcers (sorry if I offend anyone); the only way to avoid this, though, is to tweak the programming layout for Stage Zero, and, speaking of which, (3) the vast majority of the programming for Stage Zero was easily forgettable.
-Tabletop Gaming: Last year's Tabletop was about the best ever at a Fanime. That room was conveniently-located, huge, and populated with great cushy chairs and big tables. This year's posed a stark contrast: out-of-the-way, miniscule (there were about 4 tables, it seemed), and devoid of interest. Last year, I was able to pop in and watch games or play a quick pick-up of Apples to Apples whenever I needed somewhere to go; this year, there basically wasn't room for pickup games, the room required a trek to reach in the first place, and the hostile white design of the room was very uninviting, too.
-Schedule: As usual, schedules were a problem. This time it wasn't availability, mostly, because when I got there Friday morning the Friday schedule was already printed, and the other three days the schedules came out in a pretty timely fashion, plus there were online copies for people with that much foresight. The problem was the tiny print - they should definitely have had half as much information per page, in a landscape-style printjob, as in previous years. Also, workshops - as opposed to panels - were pretty much missing from the schedule, so I never did find out when (or if) Cel Painting and whatnot happened.
-Program Guide: Blame it on the shakeup in the staff if you want, but the program guide had little worthwhile information in it; in previous years we've had comics, Japanese-language tips, and other advice. This year, it's missing some really key info, such as descriptions and/or images of the anime scheduled for showing - I know there's a lot, but at least pulling out a few key titles would be better than not mentioning the anime programming in any detail whatsoever in the book. Descriptions of panels and workshops too, might help attendance improve for good workshops.
-Miami: This is just personal taste, but from what I saw about Miami, they were not extremely talented, nor did they make music nearly as catchy as the booklet portrays them.
No Comment:
-Video Room programming choices
-Dealer's Room
-Hentai or Yaoi
It was my very first CONVENTION overall so OMFG I HAD THE GREATEST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
BAD THINGS::
Exhibit Hall 2(I think, the Dealer's Room?) why was the exit in from of the entrance? Even though I kept walking in and out of it like...a million times...I still got confused.
The Schedule...that was hard to read...I had to take off my glasses and stare at it for...25 seconds b4 my eyes could get used to it.
I had a 7-year-old with me...and some of the performances and stuff werent exactly rated PG...she's okay with yaoi and that(since I'm a die-hard fan) Great Idea for next year: put a rating next to the performances. Maybe like a sign or something :3
For the yaoi marathons and such...Gakuen Heaven and Gravitation arent rated R or anything...they're Shonen Ai, not Yaoi. Maybe have a Yaoi marathon for people 18+ then have a Shonen-ai one for people ages...13+? Ionno, but I'm pretty young and LOVE LOVE LOVE yaoi.
GOOD THINGS::
KAMIJO!!!!!!! He was soooooo cool and nice! He walked around all of Exhibit 3 and complimented the stands and everything! Then he'd pose for pictures and yeah...I've never met a star that was so willing like that. More people like him please!
The people were so nice!!! I dont know if that's a compliment to the convention or the people, but hey, it's a compliment alright!
I dont have any other specifics to comment on, but this convention just ROCKED! I dont know, use every other word out there that can easily be a compliment: FANTASTIC! AMAZING! COOL! SUGOI! FRIKIN AWESOME! RADICAL! SHWEEET! GREAT! THE BEST! ...etc...
I'm definately going back NEXT year!!! :D
Wow so many complaints about the masquerade
I personally really enjoyed it, and for those of you who are knocking down walk-on's or skits, is really poor taste i mean those people put so much time and effort into what they do and want to show it off.
I don't think you should bash them, just simply say your suggestion it gets your point across, and just keep comments like that to yourself and friends.
anyways here's my opinions!
goods
masquerade- i loved how you guys had me entertained the entire time, from the beginning videos from traveling valentine, to half-time performances, to the amv winners showings, as well as the awesome karoeke winner she had an awesome voice!
-from a stand-point in participating in the masquerade, it ran smoothly, and i liked that we could watch the masquerade as well!
dealers room- i LOVED how it was set-up this year, it seemed like there were more dealers this year too. PLUS i bought merchandise for the first time in like 3 years at a con, bcause there was some cool stuff there.
stage zero-i loved being in the game show and hope that it continues, it was entertaining to sit down for a bit.
baddies
artist row- plain and simple i like it outside in the convention center.
schedule- i agree with whoever else said they should put it in the registration bag, it just makes things easier.
rapping at stage zero- on saturday there was a group of rappers performing at fanime on stage zero, i don't care for that music and it totally didn't seem to fit in. and some of the lyrics weren't family friendly, and i hear that this is supposed to be family-friendly con? I'd like it if that wasn't there next year it was loud and obnoxious.
I only had a couple things to mention, because everything else was fine with me.
I don't know if it was just me, but the Dealer's Room wasn't good this year. Most of the merchandise available was the same thing as the booth next door, so the only thing I could do in there was see if one booth was selling for cheaper. And, this is just my personal thing, but I found it annoying that most of the things I saw for sale were Naruto or Bleach. Since I'm not anything more than an occasional fan of the series', I was left with little else to purchase. Hopefully next year there will be more dealers to choose from.
I also got irked by the order of performance at MusicFest. I loved all the bands that played, but with all the jumping around and throwing of the horns, most of us seemed extremely tired by the time UP HOLD came up. Given their style of music, many would've expected to go as crazy as possible. Maybe if they (or bands like them) performed earlier, then the group can get the crazy jumping and horn-throwing they deserve.
Lastly, I wish that more people came to MusicFest. I know that at the Masquerade the seats are completely filled, but there's not as much love for the bands that traveled many hours just to perform that one night. It won't hurt to check it out one year, won't it?
The Good
- I loved the two seiyuu guests! I didn't know much about them but they were really fun. Sanada san was EXTREMELY nice and Mizushima san was special because he remembered me the entire con and I got to have a little convo with him. X.3 I'm sad that I didn't realize he was in Daiz with Kishio Daisuke san until now. (I had heard about Daizu a lot but was only familiar with Kishio san so I didn't really remember Mizushima san. .T_T)
- Free wireless!! It was really useful.
The Not So Good
- It was hard to get through when something big was going on at Stage Zero. While I think Stage Zero is a cool idea, I think its location should be reconsidered since it really does block traffic when everyone's in the area.
- More odor removers near tabletop gaming please? It didn't smell as bad today (Monday) but it sucked having to go to the bathroom the other days and passing by the room. .x_x Soap is your friend!! How 'bout Glade plugins or something?
- People who shout out stuff during events/anime trying to be funny or just pointing out people's mistakes, whatever. Who cares? BE. QUIET.
- Not the con's fault, but the dealer's room was quiet meh this year. I only bought two things and they were so I could get them signed by guests.
- Schedules. It'd be nice to have the schedules in on time so they could be included in the bags when picking up our badge. Schedules have been late for the pat 2 or 3 years. Also, that one copy of the schedule where the text was all squished and difficult to read was horrible. I'm glad it was replaced by a more legible one but I don't think attendees should have to get 3 different copies of schedules.
Suggestions
- Seems like this was thought of at the closing ceremony, but yeah, definitely switch the Video Room #1 and Stage One rooms. It's nice having the video rooms together so we don't have to walk across the con center.
That's all I can think of right. Sorry for having more complaints than priases but overall, this year was much better than last year's and I'm really looking forward to 2007!
Quote from: "DayDreamerNessa"Wow so many complaints about the masquerade
I personally really enjoyed it, and for those of you who are knocking down walk-on's or skits, is really poor taste i mean those people put so much time and effort into what they do and want to show it off.
I don't think you should bash them, just simply say your suggestion it gets your point across, and just keep comments like that to yourself and friends.
i think i need to clairfy what i was saying, whether or not this was directed at me.
i was not bashing skits. i know how much work goes into them and i think that it is great that people can get up on stage and do this. i simply do not like them because the majority of them are jammed full of anime/video game/internet jokes that i do not get because i do not like anime, video games, and those typical internet jokes all that much. i also know that a lot of people do not like walk ons becasue they are "boring" or whatever their excuse is. i think that to solve the problem of people complaining about one or the other is to have two seperate events that are both part of the masquerade- the walk-on portion that everyone has to be in just to show off their costume, and the performance section. this way, people can see the costumes but not the skits or see the skits and not the walk-ons. plus, the participants and the audience will not be thinking by the end "okay, when will this thing be over? i'm tired!".
while it may be harder to coordinate, i think that it will make the masquerade better. the average otaku doe snot have a very long attention span, you know, and having two seperate events will also keep people's atention better. :P
If the point of walk ons is to see people's craftsmanship, I think that it should be held somewhere where people can get a good up-close look at the costumes, because in most cases a really well-made cosplay looks the same as a not so well made cosplay at the distance that the audience is at.
Quote from: "serajwl"If the point of walk ons is to see people's craftsmanship, I think that it should be held somewhere where people can get a good up-close look at the costumes, because in most cases a really well-made cosplay looks the same as a not so well made cosplay at the distance that the audience is at.
they do do that it's craftsmanship judging and they do it prior to the masquerade, but they ask those who are going for craftsmanship to go onstage even if they don't have a skit planned and do a simple walk-on.
And not everyone who does walk-ons goes for craftsmanship as well =)
Placing the artists in a separate room as opposed to having them in the hallway like last year was a very bad idea. Move them back into the hallway, it was convenient.
QuoteThe schedules were much harder to read this year. It was just too small and there wasn't enough contrast with the shaded boxes and black text.
Damn straight. That had to be like size 2 font! I didn't even bother going to watch movies or anime since I couldn't read what the hell was playing.
The Masquerade was subpar. Props and respect for everyone who had the courage to go up on stage but there were too many walk-ons this year. My entire group had enough and we all left during the break to go watch X-Men 3.
This year left me with a bad outlook for next year's con. I'm just planning on skipping next year and just going to Anime Expo instead.
Also, let the dealers know Full Metal Alchemist and Narutoi aren't the only anime in the world!
Note: I love Full Metal Alchemist and Naruto so don't get the wrong idea.
What did I like...
THe Dealers room, they had such a variety of good crap this year. I was amazed that I didn't buy from jpop house (who usually sucks up all of my money) because they didnt have as good of stuff as in the past but i found stuff elsewhere that i HAD TO HAVE (mostly doll stuff).
Artist's Alley, I loved it in there and I think the selection this year was ace.
Musicfest I think they did an excellent job in bringing so many different styles to us.. its a shame it wasnt more popular :P
wifi area rocked. i got to email my paper off. whee.
Complaints
I hated waiting forever for my staff badge on thursday... i ended up leaving before i got my badge because we had other plans.
rooming was a pain in the ass for me but that was no one's fault.
There was this one broad in the how to talk to boys panel who thought she was damn sassy and sexy or something. All i gotta say is nice leggings and panty line, babe :P
I'm looking at the Maquerade script right now, we had 41 skits, 11 walk-ons, and 1 no-show. There were 53 total, 41 of which were skits.
Unfortunately, because of the way people check in (They get their place in the Masq depending on when they check in) almost all 10 of the walk-ons ended up in the first half.
Pretty much the entire second half was skits. I'm sorry you decided to not stay and see the rest of the skits.
I guess next year I will not give first choice to the people who sign up, and reorganize them so that there is a little bit better of a distribution.
However, pretty much the entire last 23 groups were skits so you sadly missed out.
Take care,
Marisa
Masquerade Coordinator
I have to say, it was my first anime convention and I loved it :D The schedules were hard to read, but otherwise the only problems I lied in deciding what to do.
I liked the AMV concert thing (musicfest?) but I didn't stay for the whole masquerade, as the Ninja Taisen Tournament was going down. I did like the first half, though, lots of good ones. The walk-ons were kind of annoying though. Especially a few where they set themselves up with intros longer than the "skit"
dislikes...
-the halls and all that stuff infront of the exhibit rooms seemed dead. I guess it wasnt bustling with artists row. Found it pretty cool last year how the tables were spread all over like that. This year I went into the Artist's Row for like 20 mins. BAH.
-Dealers Room was blah, circled the place countless times and nothing was really "WOW I GOTTA GET THAT!" not even a reasonable wooden weapon. :\
-bad luck with those random pvc toy boxes.
-that staff badge pick-up line was unholy, and the fat delays. momma save me. waiting with a friend was one of the true tests of the sane....
Uhh...
Likes...
-the super e-gaming room. that was pretty cool compared to the cramped J room at the other end of the world.
-water everywhere was a good idea.
-no injuries during volunteering work. yeaaah 8)
-the panels were pretty cool. the animeigo how to draw manga was pretty interesting for the short time i was there, too bad i couldnt have stayed longer.
-the wifi cafe was pretty BA. was a nice place to just sit and rest.
and other stuff i forgot.
This year was really great, but it because I made the choice to have a good time and not expect anyone to do it for me.
There were some bad sides, but that's mostly my fault [forgetting stuff, schedual mix-ups, and things not working x.X], but you can't have everything go your way all the time, right?
What I did like was Stage Zero [probably because I got a t-shirt :P]. Gave us something to do when we needed to kill time. I found some more cool things I wanted in the Dealer's Room as well; too bad I didn't bring enough money. [But I do agree there are a lot of Naruto, Bleach, and FMA merchandise. Hopefully dealers can expand on more series, possibly unlicensed series as well. *coughserieswithcharactersnamedHaruhicough*] Were there any other Rozen Maiden stuff besides the art book? I wanted to something for Sanada-san to sign [I have a friend who's a major RM fan].
As for improvements, I agree with all the people who think there should be a walk-on part and a skit part. Halfway through the masquerade, I saw tons of seats empty. By the time they were giving out the prizes, more than half the place was empty. Maybe the skits didn't have enough omph or the first half didn't give a big enough impression. [Personally, the skits year weren't as remarkable as last year's. I still remember them from last year, but I could hardly recall the ones from yesterday. Don't know if they didn't have enough time to prepare or if there weren't any new things this year. *really wished there was a Haruhi dance just for the hellovit*]
And I think Artists' Alley should stay in the big Exhibit Hall, but be open to the public so they can get more publicity. It'd be like having to pay to get into a small art gallery [it's not a museum or anything].
I made it sound like this year was horrible, but it was totally great; really. I hope to attend next year!
Quote from: "Karisma Black"I didn't like the artist room. I seriously liked it much better when they were just on the second floor of the convention center. It allowed people just wandering to see the art and buy stuff as opposed to having to specifically go into a room to find it. I'm sure the artists got better sales last year, too.
It really did hurt there sales. I heard that one of the artists only made %10 in one day when they made over $70 last year....
I keep saying that Der Cosplay needs to be just skits. No showing off of costumes. That's just crap when the audience expects skits. Stage zero was supposed to be for those people wanting to show off costumes. #.#
I found decent stuff in the dealer's room but it depends on what you're looking for and how early you get there. If you want something new and popular, you better get there early. (In most cases.)
The printed schedule was much better than the PDF. I was going to print that but it was way too small. 2x8? WTF? At least it was on time this year. Maybe create a more print-friendly version for next year?
Masquerade:
I really enjoyed it, except for the younger idiots in the back right (while facing the stage) of the downstairs seating. They kept yelling and basically being immature little punks while the preshow guitarist was entertaining. The couple behind me made a comment about how its better to be entertained than stare at a black screen while waiting for the show to start.
I really loved the Karaoke winner as well as the music performance played during the intermission. That gal was soooo cute. ^,^`
There were some really good skits this year. I didn't like Gainax boy from last year and that stupid Mighty Mouse thing, but his song routine this year was fantastic. Also, Gloomy's Clues was a riot, as well as the Black Mage World Wrestling. Oh, and the FFXI Mithra video/skit, though as he's my best friend, I suppose I'm a teensy bit impartial. Its a shame that so many people seemed to leave at the intermission because the Mithra skit was the first one after that.
The Stage Ninja thing was a little overplayed, but not worth complaining about, I think. Brian was great as always and so quick w/ the insults and improv. Loved it.
One suggestion would be to have a program guide. I know that a printed one would not be feasible due to the short time between the registrations and the actual show, but maybe a scrolling list on the screens before hand during seating. Something like "Entry # - Skit/WalkOn - Group Name - Skit Name." That way people can get a feel for whats planned for the night. Just an idea, ya?
Schedules:
Dissapointment. It wasn't as bad as last year when it came to timing, but the printed schedule is all that was available for those of us who didn't bring printers to the con, and the one handed out on Saturday was barely legible.
There was supposed to be some Robot Rumble mecha versus mecha discussion that was announced Friday night at the Robotech Shadow Chronicles Preview, but none of the staff seemed to know anything about it, so I have no idea if it occurred or not because I had no idea where to go. Also, there was a mistake on Saturday night that said "Geneon Presents Akira 2." Got all excited for nothing.
My dissapointment stems from the fact that everyone knew it was a problem last year, and yet it wasn't fixed for this year. I understand its a big con and there are a lot of things going on, but please do not tell me that its a lot of hard work for people who are donating their time and effort into this and we should be thankful that it didn't turn out worse. We heard that excuse last year and accepted it. That shouldn't make it a "Get out of Jail free" card. I do not mean to sound bitter, but it was a problem last year that I was hoping would be remedied.
On the plus side, the free internet cafe and updated schedule online was helpful and kept us from being completely lost.
Panels:
Rooster Teeth was awesome. Funny funny guys, though they seemed bored out of their minds hanging out in the dealer's room.
Gaia was fun, I hear. I didn't attend, but I saw the line while leaving the Rooster Teeth panel and I could hear the cheers from down the hall. Plus, the people I know who did attend said it was a blast.
Dealers' Room:
Air conditioning was wonderful. ^.^` My cosplay outfit doesn't breathe very well so the AC was a blessing. There was so much there I wanted to buy but just didn't have the money for. And to my regret, hardly anyone seemed to accept Credit Cards for under $100 purchases, if at all. One booth accepted CC over $35, but since they didn't sell any Macross toys, I only managed a $37 purchase.
Also, I loved that first corner booth on the left side of the far right aisle from the entrance. It was the one that allowed you to choose which Kingdom Hearts Trading Arts piece you wanted. Saved me quite a bit of change to get the figure I wanted. ^.^
Art Room:
At first I wasn't too thrilled, but by having its own room it helped keep the main walkways cleared, and so it was very worth it. The Art Room itself was a little stuffy, but since it was the same set up as the Dealers' Room, it made browsing much easier. I spent quite a bit of time in there, and I have a couple cards I need to check out for commisions. ^.^` A lot of the artists themselves are fun/interesting people and I had plenty of fun little conversations.
Video Programming:
Not too thrilled this year. There were a couple Asian Live Action shows I enjoyed, but no much in the way of animé. I'm guessing something happened where fansub animé is no longer allowed to be played? Two years ago I was running from room to room all day to catch new animé I wanted to check out. Was much more laid back w/ only a couple shows I had to catch. This year, however, there were only 2 shows I wanted to see: one was the Shadow Chronicles preview that I missed because I was feeling ill, and the second was a typo on the schedule. -,-` All the rest of the animé that played was basically stuff I can just borrow from friends. *shrugs*
E-Gaming:
Awesome. Taiko again dominated the majority of the time I spent in that room. I only tried a little Guitar Hero because the guitars were busted and were double strumming off of single strums, which kept screwing up my combos. -,-`
I am all for having the E-Gaming in an exhibition hall. Open area kept the room cool and having all the arcade in there as well meant for good variety for playing as well as watching.
My only complaint is about this one punk kid who was hogging half of the Time Crisis 3 machine while 6 people stood behind him trying to get on for doubles.
My only suggestion would be to spread the arcade machines out a bit more. There were huge crowds around some of the Bemania machines, making it difficult to see/access others. Other than that, great job.
Staff:
Overall, good people. My friend and I had our props peace-bonded the first time we entered the Dealers' Room, which was also the first time we entered anything that required a badge check-in. The staffer was real nice and apologized for the trouble, which of course he did not have to do since he was only doing his job, but the fact that he did showed the attitude of the staffer, which was helpful and courteous while enforcing con rules. Helpful and courteous is probably a good way to describe all but one of the staffers I encountered.
Noticed how I said all but one? The encounter I just described is a good foil to the FIRST encounter I had with a staffer this con. On Thursday during the Pre-reg badge pickup there was some guy snapping at people in line, telling them to get away from certain walls and certain doors and the like. Most of the people I saw in this line and the later line for the Masquerade respond quickly enough when spoken to in a polite manner, so this guy's behaviour just kind of surprised me. There was an incident last year w/ a staffer in a little go cart and cowboy hat and some Naruto cosplayers taped to a pillar, but I understood that the staffer was running from one fire to the next, so to speak, and so his terse manner was understandable and his demands to enforce safety regulations reasonable. The incident this year occured before the con even started and this guy already seemed to have a bad attitude.
So astounded I was by his behaviour that I wanted to tell my friends' who had yet to arrive about him, and so I got out my camera to take a picture. Now, when I turn my digital camera on, the viewfinder screen displays a Kodak logo against a black background. When that image cleared I saw the staffer looking at me w/ his hands together against his chest, so I snapped the picture. Right away he came to me and while I do not remember his exact words it was in an "are you stupid?" tone and went something like: "Do you think that when a person tells you not to take his picture that you should do it anyways?" I do not go out of my way to offend people so I apologized, saying that I did not hear him say no, nor even shake his head, nor did any of the people around me. I told him I would delete the picture and was going to, but decided against it. For one, this confrontation was even more reason to warn my friends about this seemingly arrogant staffer. For two, while it is generally rude to take a picture of a person w/out their consent, I do not know of any law/rule barring a person taking pictures in public places of anyone else in those public places, nor are there any lines in the Policies section in the Fanimécon 2006 book. I do not plan on posting the image, but if anyone else had problems with a staffer and think it may be the same person, PM and I'll send it to you.
Stage Zero:
That was a fun little thing to check out and there were some fun games and vids. The rap, however, seemed rather out of place.
I can't think of much else at the moment. This year was the first Fanimé at which I cosplayed and that ate up most of my time and energy. Cosplaying really made things so much more fun than just attending. ^.^` Not sure if I'll be back next year, since it is so expensive flying out from Minnesota and getting a hotel and all that, but we'll see. Here's hoping, ya?
-Eternal Malachi
Quote from: "Sunara Ishi"It really did hurt there sales. I heard that one of the artists only made %10 in one day when they made over $70 last year...
I went to the feedback panel about this. The counter argument is a lot of people had a stuff that needed a constant eye on them to make sure people wouldn't walk off with it or 5 finger discount it.
Also, people would be able to leave their stuff and setups behind because the room was locked up at night when they were finished.
However, advertising really was down this year.
~Chun
For the moment, I have two comments...one is bring back ParaParaParadise. BBBB, whoever the hell you are, you are SO GOING DOWN. >D
The second is toward the Fanarts Center (Artist's Row); the impression I got was that it was almost like a fan Dealers' Hall. It's almost like it could turn into a FaniComiket, even. But the overall vibe of the place was focused solely on the artists and not artists plus people hurrying to and fro plus people posing in the center of the place. Oh, and let's not forget -- if Artist's Row was where it was, where would we put Stage Zero, as crowded as it was many times? So, I like this new idea -- more breathing room, the option to take your time as with the dealers' hall, and a level up in security, as per Chun's reply.
A great con but it all seemed to go so fast, my thoughts:
Good
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1. Dealers Room - They had alot of stuff that I usually have to seek high and low for but conveniently placed within my reach this year. Nice selection.
2. Game selection in Gaming Room. They brought Para Para this year, that made my girl very happy and for me they had every popular fighting title.
3. A wide variety of screening rooms. It was great to ALWAYS have something to resort to if the dance ended or the Gaming crowd had died down and you just wanted to get in some good viewing.
4. Alot of new friendly people. I made a few new friends and caught up with a few old ones.
5. Organization, I was able to find everything I was looking for due to the lovely signs and READY MADE schedule made available at registration.
Okay, now with a little of the...
Bad
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1. Gaming Room kept all the games outside of the main hall/walkway area. I always felt keeping the games in the open area kept things lively where areas centralizing it in one place kinda made the place feel dead at times.
2. Masquerade, now before I give my two cents, I applaud all those who put in the immense effort to create their costumes. Im sure it took many man hours and quite a bit of financial investment, kudos to you. However, I felt the Masquerade was drawn out with "filler" by the many walk-ons and lack of skits.
3. Sore losers. I spent a great deal of time gaming in the E-Gaming room and I was physically threatened on more than 4 occassions and was verbally chewed out more than I can recall. Now, I wasnt being a pompous ass about my wins, I wasnt gloating and most games I played and won I thanked my opponent for a good game. Im not worried about a fight, I would prefer to avoid one because I dont want to get kicked out but it would be nice to enjoy my gaming experience without anyone flipping out.
Overall it was a great con and Ill be there again next year.
Quote from: "YoureMyHiro"A great con but it all seemed to go so fast, my thoughts:
2. Masquerade, now before I give my two cents, I applaud all those who put in the immense effort to create their costumes. I'm sure it took many man hours and quite a bit of financial investment, kudos to you. However, I felt the Masquerade was drawn out with "filler" by the many walk-ons and lack of skits.
I'm still baffled by this one (read up higher in this thread). There were only 11 walk-ons and 41 skits plus 2 special performances. Did you not stay for the second part either? Also, it's absolutely impossible to control who does how many skits or anything. It's a free show put on by people making up their own stuff- and therefore the content can't be screened and changes every year depending on who participates. If we require skits and only skits -- you are probably going to get about 20 groups. The way this works is that a FEW groups (usually the ones who win) plan out skits a long time in advance, but a lot of people just make up their skits on the fly -- even when they signed up originally as "walk-ons" we talk them into doing skits.
I will reorganize that next year somehow to distribute the walk-ons better, but sadly walk-ons are a part of every cosplay event because remember the cosplayers are putting on this show for you. They want to be able to show off their costumes, that is why they are in it, and a skit may not be what they want to do. We started to require that all walk-ons at least have music and do some poses so that the audience has something to see -- but unfortunately it's not something we can eliminate from the contest: it's just part of cosplay and you will see it at every single con in the United States.
The best I can do is to make the walk-ons a little more spread-out this year. Sadly, I did not realize until I read the comments here that almost all the walk-ons ended up in the first half. I think if we had mixed it up a bit more, 5 skits for every 1 walk on which was the true ratio, you would not have noticed them so much. That's my fault because of the way we checked in people for our ease (by giving them a number as they cheked in) of keeping track of things. You guys missed some great skits in the second half, which was almost completely skits.
For those who have commented on the emcee, that was Brian aka Dieter, who has hosted just about every single Masquerade for the past 10 years or so at Fanime... it wasn't a new guy... we just took over the organization of the background stuff and Brian returned to emcee. Brian just wanted to retire his "Dieter" persona for a while.
We hope to see you back next year.
Thanks,
Marisa
Masquerade Coordinator
One of the (VERY FEW!) things that bummed me out was that nobody knew about the Ranma ½ gathering. This got me to thinking:
Maybe we should have the gatherings put up on the schedule... so EVERYBODY knows when to be where. Then there's no questions, and...
...then we'll get MORE THAN THREE (could'a been four, I think) PEOPLE AT THE RANMA ½ GATHERING!
Quote from: "YoureMyHiro"
5. Organization, I was able to find everything I was looking for due to the lovely signs and READY MADE schedule made available at registration.
Ah, that reminds me of another issue. Aside from the Live Action rooms, the video rooms had no room schedule until Sunday, and then that was just a copy of the printed schedule w/ relevant bits highlighted.
If the animé rooms could have a set up like the Live Action Asian Cinema rooms, with what show showing at what time w/ a brief little synopsis, that would be most helpful, I think.
Stage Zero was a pretty cool addition to the convention.
Masquarade's award ceremony wasn't lively compare to last year.
Brian Doan is my speech teacher and he told me that he's gonna host the masquarade. Then I hear from the other staff that he wasn't gonna host. What's going on?
Quote from: "angeljibrille"Quote from: "YoureMyHiro"A great con but it all seemed to go so fast, my thoughts:
2. Masquerade, now before I give my two cents, I applaud all those who put in the immense effort to create their costumes. I'm sure it took many man hours and quite a bit of financial investment, kudos to you. However, I felt the Masquerade was drawn out with "filler" by the many walk-ons and lack of skits.
I'm still baffled by this one (read up higher in this thread). There were only 11 walk-ons and 41 skits plus 2 special performances. Did you not stay for the second part either? Also, it's absolutely impossible to control who does how many skits or anything. It's a free show put on by people making up their own stuff- and therefore the content can't be screened and changes every year depending on who participates. If we require skits and only skits -- you are probably going to get about 20 groups. The way this works is that a FEW groups (usually the ones who win) plan out skits a long time in advance, but a lot of people just make up their skits on the fly -- even when they signed up originally as "walk-ons" we talk them into doing skits.
The best I can do is to make the walk-ons a little more spread-out this year. Sadly, I did not realize until I read the comments here that almost all the walk-ons ended up in the first half. I think if we had mixed it up a bit more, 5 skits for every 1 walk on which was the true ratio, you would not have noticed them so much. That's my fault because of the way we checked in people for our ease (by giving them a number as they cheked in) of keeping track of things. You guys missed some great skits in the second half, which was almost completely skits.
Maybe I didnt stay till the second half Im not sure I was so tired by that time but I stayed up until the Usa Musume performance, I had hoped that Ramen and Rice might make a special guest apperance, watched their show and the moment it ended I left.
But as you previously stated maybe the solution is just dispersing the walk ons and skits as evenly as possible although I did enjoy the two special performances.
I don't think I have to reiterate the huge inconvenience of the schedules, so moving along...
>> It definitely felt like there were too many walk-ons in the masquerade, but there was an explanation by the staff somewhere in this thread so I'm not too worried about that. However, I don't agree that some separate event should be made for walk-ons. I think those costumers deserve the same crowd as those with skits. Anyway, there was a previous complaint about the skits this year. The masquerade lineup is decided by sign-up, right? So they can't exactly filter in the skits that will be more entertaining, because it's all in the eye of the beholder.
>> The dealer's room was a little blah (I bought two things from the same booth all weekend, and one was an item that sold out last year). But I don't think Fanime can control what merchandise they bring, or how much of one series.
>> I'm actually really glad the the Asian Film programming has expanded to a wide variety of dramas along with the movies. Thumbs up to the Asian Programming people! (too bad I've already seen a lot of the dramas LOL - but that's just a drama addict for you)
>> I liked the E-Gaming room setup, as opposed to having it out in the open. There's no screen glare and a convenient spread of the machines.
>> One of the major things that did tick me off, though, was the MusicFest line control (but then it ticks me off every year). I think a Fanime staff/volunteer person should be out there earlier to regulate the line, because it got ridiculous this year. Even though one line was already forming in on direction, a group of people started lining up in another direction and the staff started yelling the foremost part of the line to move back and make room for them when they should've started with the back of the line. When they DID go to the back of the line to get the end moving, they disappeared and it never happened. We were told to move
three times before they decided it wouldn't work and they would just hold the line back while they let the other side in. Like I said, it was ridiculous, and they totally didn't know what they were doing.
In contrast to the MusicFest line, the masquerade line got much more attention. The line staff were much more firm about the line and keeping the sidewalk clear of groups and clusters. I was very happy about that.
P.S. Please don't look for friends in a line and stay there without having waited two hours in line, like the rest of us. That's just rude.>> The "24/7" concerts were actually very nice, and it must've been cool for the bands to have two one man lives plus a long concert in total. Is there any way for the lights to be turned off and have some kind of lighting against the stage for the band?
>> Just for the record, this was the first year I went and did karaoke with my friends. It was a blast, and I hope everyone has a chance to check that out (especially late out night when no one cares wth they're doing). I think it's a classic event that'll always be fun, if nothing else is.
>> Is it just me or are there fewer and fewer guests related to anime? :roll:
In the end my friends and I started considering skipping Fanime and going on to another convention next year, or staying only two days of the convention.
QuoteFor those who have commented on the emcee, that was Brian aka Dieter, who has hosted just about every single Masquerade for the past 10 years or so at Fanime... it wasn't a new guy... we just took over the organization of the background stuff and Brian returned to emcee. Brian just wanted to retire his "Dieter" persona for a while.
Thanks for clearing that up! My friends and I were all confused when Brian went back on stage, since we thought he was going to retire totally from hosting, but I can't actually imagine the masquerade without him so yay.
Swap Meet
I was a little annoyed when setting up for swap meet this year. The event started at 8 and there was still a huge line of sellers still waiting to set up and shoppers were already at the swap meet for the few sellers who had already set up. I thought it was a bit unfair and disorganized. I did like how it was at the game room though
Schedules
As said already, schedules were hard to read
Dealers
it was fun as it always has been every year. I thought however it could of used more variety. I kept seeing a lot of sellers with the same merchandise or lack of series variety ( so much Naruto/Bleach.. not that those series are a bad thing)
Artist Alley
I liked the room, but I never minded having the artists having their booth out in the hallway. A couple sellers I was talking to said they liked it better having their booth out in the hallway again than in a room. They had a better sales when in the hallway and recieve more people to look at their stuff as they pass by.
Game Room
Just awesome. Excellent gaming room. I liked the variety of arcade gaming and PC gaming and Console gaming.
Dealers room- Rocked. I loved it again this year, however I did miss the Funimation booth and their hourly drawings for free DVDs. >_< Other than that it was really cool.
Artist Alley- I really really loved the format myself. I know a lot of people are arguing about it, but I loved the way it looked and felt. It allowed me to see all of the artists without walking the entirety of the concourse. They were all collected together and I was able to appreciate all of their work.
Masquerade- Didn't go. Not big on the actual competition, but that's my own preference.
AMV Contest- Loved it. The videos weren't as good as last year's imo, but the Princess Tutu and Outlaw Star one made up for it. And the comedy section was better imo. I loved all of them.
Panels- I only went to a few, but there were a couple that were moved around. It would be cool if Fanime could set up some sort of instant information system to communicate to fans the second that a panel has been moved and/or cancelled. I saw like, 3 versions of the schedule over the weekend (which I could read just fine...) But anyways, the panels were still pretty cool.
Video Rooms- Good, some of them weren't that heavily guarded as far as badge checking, but for the most part it was checked. Good selection this year, and the Bleach marathon definitely was a hit as well. Bravo.
Staff- A couple times they may have jumped to the 'angry' setting a bit faster than required, but for the most part the staff were all really cool this year.
My biggest complaint would be the following:
Saturday's line for buying badges.
I went to get my 2 sisters and their friend badges to take them for the day. We were in line for almost 3 hours. I understand that Saturday is a busy day, but I think that there should be another whole section dedicated to registration for times like that. People were handing out the registration forms down the line, and that was cool, but if you set up another 4 or 5 windows in another section, that would most likely help the regular registration line go faster.
That's about it.
Wow. I'm glad to hear so many positive things about the Asian Film rooms. It's always gratifying to know that all the work we do is appreciated by the attendees of the convention.
Now, some questions.
For those of you that did not visit the Asian Film Rooms:
1. Was there any reason that you did not visit the Asian Film and Drama rooms?
2. What would it take to get you to watch Asian Films and Dramas next year at Fanime?
For those of you that did visit the Asian Film Rooms:
1. What films or dramas did you enjoy the most?
2. Were there any films or dramas on the schedule that you had made plans to see going into the convention?
3. Were there any films or dramas that you dropped in on, without any previous intention of watching the film, but ended up enjoying?
4. Were there any films or dramas that you did not enjoy?
5. What can we do to improve your experience in the Asian Film rooms?
Thanks! :)
Quote from: "OniCourseMusha"Masquarade's award ceremony wasn't lively compare to last year.
This is because we had a sudden change in the schedule and they told us we had to be out of there by 11:00pm (instead of 11:30pm as was scheduled). So, we had to sadly rush through the awards :-( I'm extremely sorry about that, much of what we had planned to do did not happen because of the schedule change.
Quote from: "OniCourseMusha"Brian Doan is my speech teacher and he told me that he's gonna host the masquarade. Then I hear from the other staff that he wasn't gonna host. What's going on?
If you were at the Masquerade - you saw he was there...? He was always planned to be the host. The only difference this year was that "Dieter" was not going to be there, by Brian's choice. Brian himself was there and had always been scheduled to be there. Some staff may have been confused because Brian also used to run the backstage stuff (organizing cosplayers, etc.) and that was taken over by a different team this year. Brian is now just the emcee and we were happy to have him return in that capacity.
Thanks~!
Marisa
Quote from: "asianfilm"
For those of you that did visit the Asian Film Rooms:
1. What films or dramas did you enjoy the most?
2. Were there any films or dramas on the schedule that you had made plans to see going into the convention?
3. Were there any films or dramas that you dropped in on, without any previous intention of watching the film, but ended up enjoying?
4. Were there any films or dramas that you did not enjoy?
5. What can we do to improve your experience in the Asian Film rooms?
Thanks! :)
1. The random people I hung out with and I really loved Waterboys. It was side-splitting hilarious!
2. We made plans to see one at 3 in the morning becuase it sounded good, but it ended up being so late that we just crashed instead.
3. Kim Sam Soon..We just went in because we had nothing else to do. It was great though! The hair thing was hilarious.
4. Personally I only saw about 3, so even though I didn't have any bad ones it might be because I didn't watch that much.
5. Like I said, I had a great time so I don't have anything for you to improve upon. I liked it so much this year I'm actually thinking of trying to join your staff for 07.
Side noteI'd have to agree with some of the people about the rap being out of place. I was there watching them until I heard the "F" word for the 4th time in 30 seconds. The sad part is that I like rap and would have stuck around if it was more family friendly.
Quote from: "YoureMyHiro"
Maybe I didnt stay till the second half Im not sure I was so tired by that time but I stayed up until the Usa Musume performance, I had hoped that Ramen and Rice might make a special guest apperance, watched their show and the moment it ended I left.
We actually asked them to come, but one of the two could not make it due to other obligations and sadly had to miss Fanime altogether. They were sincerely missed -- we love Ramen & Rice too!! They were originally our idea for the "seating music". Maybe next year :D
Quote from: "YoureMyHiro"
But as you previously stated maybe the solution is just dispersing the walk ons and skits as evenly as possible although I did enjoy the two special performances.
Nodnod. I think this is going to have to be the solution. We alre already brainstorming on ideas to help make this happen.
Thanks!
Marisa
Sorry about the double posts guys. It won't let me delete one. :(
Dealer’s room had a decent selection of goods, and I got some decent deals on Monday. I am happy with all my purchases. However, I did notice a lack of wallscrolls, posters, and distributor booths. Bandai, Funimation, and others have been in the past, and this year it seemed only Media Blasters made it. It’s sad, because sometimes the best deals come from the distributors.
AMVs were a lot of fun. I had three friends with me who hadn’t seen them before and they had a great time. The only sour point was the hecklers who started booing the Naruto videos. That was just rude.
Bishounen Bingo was a blast. Elysium and Thorn rocked hardcore.
Schedules came out BEFORE the con! Woohoo!
Decent selection of fansubbed anime. I was especially happy with Rozen Maiden.
Funimation’s premiere was good; I found some new anime to look forward too. Too bad everything was dubbed. But it still gave me a good enough preview. I wish more distributors had previews at Fanime.
Artist’s Alley was good in the Exhibit Hall. Except they needed more advertising. I walked by several times before I realized it was there.
It would help if maps were posted at the information booths, so that when they are closed at night, we can still find stuff (like if we forgot our program guide in the hotel room). It took us forever to find Video Room 8.
Fanboy funk seemed slightly tamer this year, although it was still noticeable. Best sign: “Buy less Pocky, more soap!†at a vendor table. One time I left a vendor booth prematurely because it reeked so bad.
All in all, my friends and I had a great time. Thank you all for making it possible.
asianfilm
1. What films or dramas did you enjoy the most? Considering I only watched one throughout the whole con, I'll say Duelist. It was beautiful.
2. Were there any films or dramas on the schedule that you had made plans to see going into the convention? Duelest, Water Boys, A Tale of Two Sisters
3. Were there any films or dramas that you dropped in on, without any previous intention of watching the film, but ended up enjoying? Not really, I didn't really do much of that this year lol.
4. Were there any films or dramas that you did not enjoy? When we went to see A Tale of Two Sisters they couldn't get the subtitle track to play so they screened a different movie about a murder investigation instead. We tried it out anyway but we were out of there in about 10-15 minutes - it was boring.
5. What can we do to improve your experience in the Asian Film rooms? I can't think of anything right now, but I was pretty happy about the variety offered. I did notice that there was kind of a lack of Chinese material, particularly in the drama area.
Quote from: "Babbit_Chan"4. Were there any films or dramas that you did not enjoy? When we went to see A Tale of Two Sisters they couldn't get the subtitle track to play so they screened a different movie about a murder investigation instead. We tried it out anyway but we were out of there in about 10-15 minutes - it was boring.
5. What can we do to improve your experience in the Asian Film rooms? I can't think of anything right now, but I was pretty happy about the variety offered. I did notice that there was kind of a lack of Chinese material, particularly in the drama area.
We actually had a ton of Chinese movies on the schedule, but we'll work on adding some Chinese dramas as well.
As for the subtitle problem with
A Tale of Two Sisters... REALLY sorry about that. We figured out what the problem was, and we're taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again next year. I'm sorry to hear you didn't like
The Big Scene, though. I do admit that it is very slow at the beginning, but once it picks up, it's actually very good. Maybe next time, perhaps? :)
This, being my second year, I found it much better then last year. I think this is mainly because I had more friends go and I had an idea of what to expect and what to look for.
Artist Row
I personally like having the artist row on the main concourse. Yes, it made things at times a little hard to walk through, but I spent more time looking at the artist stuff. I spent maybe 20mins in total in artist row. The concourse felt really empty because of that.
Dealer's Room
I loved the dealer's room this year. It felt like there was way more dealers this year then last year. The only complaint I have is that there wasn't enough variety in the merchandise; way too much Bleach and Naruto stuff. (Even though I love Bleach)
E-Gaming
Brilliant, I didn't spend too much time there, but it looked like a blast. Having the Swap Meet there was really great for us that were purchasing. It wasn't stuffy and there were a ton more people selling stuff.
Asian Video Rooms
For my friends and me, this was really amazing. The movies there were great! I personally only watched 3 or so movies, but I had some friends that watched maybe 5+. They enjoyed every movie except maybe one. Our favorite movie, by far, was Shinobi. Wow! The only suggestion I have, and this is for everything in general, is to have signs up saying where things are. Kind of like the street signs you see at San Francisco that point you where Chinatown and Fisherman's Warf is. Last year, I could not find the Asian Video Room to save my life. I think this would help greatly for new-commers.
Table Top-Gaming
Horrible room. I had no clue where the room was (looked for it where it was last yaer). I couldn't get into the Holdem tournament because I couldn't find it, and second, not enough tables. Plus it felt stuff in there and I would have hated to be in there on Saturday and Sunday
Stage Zero
Excellent idea! It was the only thing going on in the Concourse. Certainly gave a little life. I didn't spend much time there, but it is definately a keeper. As far as the rap goes, I didn't dig their style of rap which was basically why I didn't like it. I can't stand Hyphy rappers to begin with. I think if you do do rappers again, get conscious rappers and have more of the other elements worked in. The B-boy thing was cool and thought that worked. I would look into bringing in a group like Crown City Rockers which are a rap band (meaning drums, keys, etc). Speaking of which, instead of having the bands play in the small room, why not put them out on stage zero? maybe too many people will gather?
MusicFest
EXCELLENT! I didn't care for some of the bands like Poplar and Miami, but the others were amazing! Swinging Popsicles and mothercoat were just wow! It was sad that the place wasn't full though. It was definately a highlight for me.
Kim Sam Soon! ^,^` My friend and I were just wandering the halls and made our way down the Asian film area and were drawn in by a thrown cake and a steady beat. ^.^ I wanted to watch more but my friend and I had to make our rounds to show of the costumes. Maximum exposure! ^.^`
Quote from: "asianfilm"1. What films or dramas did you enjoy the most?
I saw:
- Densha Otoko ep 1
- Men Suddenly in Black
- the second half of Initial D
- A Bittersweet Life
I liked Densha Otoko, but I didn't want to get worn out by watching huge chunks of it at a time - I didn't realize that each episode was an hour long. Men Suddenly In Black was pretty good, especially the camera-fight scene, which had me laughing about as loud as is humanly possible. A Bittersweet Life was visually stunning, but the plot was a bit hard to follow and it seemed amazingly long. However, it was
awesomely intense, and about as hilarious as any of the comedies, perhaps unintentionally and due to the comments friends and I were making (as we comprised 3 of the 5 or so people present). You have
no idea how many in-jokes we came up with from that movie.
Quote from: "asianfilm"2. Were there any films or dramas on the schedule that you had made plans to see going into the convention?
I planned to see Densha Otoko because I had heard about it from several people prior to the convention. The others were just sort of a drop-in, like late at night when I said, "Well, the other rooms are either in the middle of marathons or hentai, so I guess Asian Film it is!"
Quote from: "asianfilm"3. Were there any films or dramas that you dropped in on, without any previous intention of watching the film, but ended up enjoying?
See my response to #1. In short: yes, all of them.
Quote from: "asianfilm"4. Were there any films or dramas that you did not enjoy?
No. Though all the movies had their flaws, they also had awesome parts.
Quote from: "asianfilm"5. What can we do to improve your experience in the Asian Film rooms?
Highlight a few filims in particular that are really popular or must-see events. The way it is now, every movie I see in the Asian Film rooms is a "sleeper hit" in a sense. Otherwise - the Asian Film rooms are
so well-prepared in advance that I just wish the other viewing rooms could be as organized: summaries in the doors, those and screenshots at the doors, and everything planned in advance, too!
Waaaaay above par for Fanime viewing rooms.
Quote from: "asianfilm"Wow. I'm glad to hear so many positive things about the Asian Film rooms. It's always gratifying to know that all the work we do is appreciated by the attendees of the convention.
Now, some questions.
For those of you that did not visit the Asian Film Rooms:
1. Was there any reason that you did not visit the Asian Film and Drama rooms?
2. What would it take to get you to watch Asian Films and Dramas next year at Fanime?
Thanks! :)
I myself have not visited the asian film room in the last two years that I've been there...and I'm not quite sure why... I know that movies like Saikano live action looks really interesting to me, so maybe if you have that by next year I'll swing by.
Movies like Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and others are really appealing to me, and I know you had breakdowns of certain movies up, but maybe if you categorized the asian film rooms further? Like, Asian Film 1 would be Action/Martial Arts, Asian Film 2 could be drama and Asian Film 3 could be comedy? Something like that would make me want to visit them a bit more, because I would look at the schedule and I really didn't know what I was looking at as far as titles. *shrug*
Certain Dramas would be cool to see...I think most of it is me breaking myself into the genre. ^_^
Anyways, I look forward to checking out the Asian Film room next year. ^_^
One other thing, the Tabletop gaming room was definitely NOT as good this year as it was last year. It was way too cramped, and the BO in there was taking up permanent residence. Move it to a bigger room...maybe if it had it's own corner in the E-gaming room that would have been cool too.
That's my only other main complaint.
Alright, so I was a Rover and I was doing Desk, I'm sure a lot of people saw me... I apologize in advance to anyone that I may have been short with, I tried to be nice, but I worked 8-14 hours every day and so sometimes I was hardly aware of what was coming out of my mouth.
Anyhow, I didn't get out much, but what I did see, I had comments about.
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- Stage Zero[/b]
Absolutely brilliant! I'm glad we had the entertainment out on the concourse, I just wish there had been more late-night filler for when nothing else was open. It couldn't have been too incredibly hard to have set up the system so there would be like... filler amv's all night-- the best of past years, perhaps... but for a first year program, it was good. (I'd love to see it back with some improvements for next year).
However, I was a Rover (as I said) and I know people repeatedly had to go out there to do crowd control because of fans getting too crowded and blocking walkways. Because of this I'd love to see more space for crowds next time.
- Asian Films[/b]
I saw that there was a particular form, but I just have a couple comments since I only poked my head in for one or two movies the whole weekend. I liked the choices, but some of them would have been better switched to different times. I do understand that you can't please everyone all the time, so I think it was fairly well done. I don't especially like Old Boy, but I know that a lot of people like it. (Enough to play it two years in a row though?)
- Peace-Bonding[/b]
It should have been placed more places-- a location in the Dealer's Hall and maybe on the Concourse would be nice. (I know we were terribly understaffed, however more people with peacebonding training could have done more). I know a lot of people who normally would get bonded couldn't find the Rover office. *sigh*[/list:o]
I can't think of anything else right now.
Just wanted to post some quickie great things about this year's fanime:
MASQUERADE WAS ON TIME!! If I hadn't been there and seen it, I would never have believed it could happen :D Marisa and all of the masq team, congratulations on such a great show! (By the way, Brian, your son is the cutest kid on the face of the earth)
Stage Zero was a great idea that I hope can be expanded next year. Maybe have rotating hosts? Or even have that be the j-pop/j-rock hub of the con? (It sort of was, and sort of wasn't...)
The guests were great too! It was great talking to them, and they all gave wonderful interviews. I hope they enjoyed it as much as we did :)
And finally, the press staff, specifically Pamela. I hope you read the boards, Pam, because you were an EXCELLENT press liason. Really truly, you ran a tight ship and it was great to see! Thanks so much for keeping us (that'd be the cosplaylab.com reps) informed about any changes that were needed right when you knew. You were courteous and helpful and awesome and I hope we can see you again in the same position next year ^^ Although any team would be lucky to have you!
And a couple of quick suggestions:
As everyone has said, it might be good to have the walk-ons either judged in a different competition or to have them all go on one after the other during the masq. There were some wonderful costumes shown, and all that hard work is certainly appreciated, but having a walk-on come on after a particularly energetic performance tends to cut that energy off at the knees :( It's just great to keep building the momentum up during the show.
Stage Zero, as I mentioned, could probably be expanded. It'd be cool to have a j-pop/rock only cosplay competition- the stage is big enough (and there were enough microphones) to have some great performances. Although it might have to be moved to a different place for that, since the crowd during anything like that might be too big to allow for good traffic passing through >_>
Please god move the karaoke competition. Lots of people with nine-to-five jobs don't get off work on fridays until after (or right at) five, so it's hard for those of us who want to participate but have work :( Both of my other group members this year had that happen, and that kind of sucked. Saturday might be a better day...but then it would conflict with music fest, right? I dunno. Just putting it out there.
Thanks to all the staffers and volunteers this year for giving us a great con!
Fwou~ I might mention things that were already mentioned but then I forgot easily this sorta stuff and and and. yus.
I LOVED this year a lot more than almost any other year (hookay, there were personal non-con reasons, but still. ^_^; )
++ I was sooooo happy about the whole previewing stuff on Thursday for the pre-reg people. Showing The Maxx was 'boss' and very 'rad'.
++ The Martial Arts performances in the Artist Alley room was VERY cool. ^_^ All of those people are so talented!
++ The layout for the E-Gaming was great! It was all in one section, though I got confused where the tabletop was, and didn't get my bearring straight on it until Sunday Night *sadness.. doesn't take direction really well even with a map*
-- The Swap meet on Friday was a little confusing because there was e-gaming stuff going on/getting set-up. I would have liked to see the swap meet in its own room again, though not like last year. With the line switching back and forth. X_x; Maybe more a seperation? Since it was all along the one wall it got confusing for me because it was so spread out.
+/- Artist Alley. Hookay. I had a table, and it was aaaaaaaall the way in the corner in the back. I don't mind that actually and it was a lot of fun. ^^ I was hoping that being over near one of the stages, something was going to go on there, but I guess I was wrong because the only thing I actually saw going on there was there were couches and some people just hung out at them. X_x; The major problem for me was the fact that there were 4 empty tables between mine and the next person close to the front. The way the tables were set-up it caused most people to only stay towards the front of the room and us people in back left-hand corner didn't get nearly as much attention - I'm going to guess less than half. Perhaps some sort of table re-assignment can take place if there are empty tables? It was probably possible, but I wasn't sure n' too shy to ask. ;3; Still, I would love to see some sort of 'zen-type' set-up for the tables next year that would help make the flow of con-going traffic move through the entire room *nods* But I loved the fact we were in a seperate room, having the main con floor open was really nice and no where near as claustrophobic as it was for meeh last year. (p.s. thanks everyone who bought some of my stuff/watched my little short on the Death of Aeris! ^_^)v )
++ The viewing rooms were large and awesome. It was great the diversity of anime that was being played
+/- I really liked the programming pamphlets that explained what each event was, but what I would have loved to see (that I saw some other year) was a short description of each anime/movie that was being played. It was all on the website, but it makes it difficult for people who might not have realized that. Even a short description on the board infront of the room that would be changed out each time for each anime would be helpful (shucks, I would help make that happen! *waves her arms* I'd design the temple, buy the paper and print the stuff out if need be). Otherwise a person would have to look at their watch, find the video room on the schedule and see what the anime was called.
oh! another +/- I liked how the schedule was blocked out! I wish we could've had a color version in the pamphlet though.. and if we could've been able to get the entire schedule at once that would have been very awesome. My only other downside with it, was when the Sun/Mon one was printed, a bad batch got set out and you couldn't really read the text. ;_; I so would've gone to the early Dollfie panel (before I opened my artist row thing) if I could've read it as that. ._.;
Uhm uhm.. what else.. ou~ Suggestions!
If Stage zero remains, use the mic system to announce big things for people! Like popular panels, events, anime being shown! Like "Attention, photoshoots with Kamijo are starting in 10 minutes in blahblahblah" I dunno if this was actually done (most of the time I was in artist alley playing with chibi figurines. XP ), but it would be helpful and I think pretty awesome~
I loved this year and for the first time I'm certain I shall return for another. :D Great job staff and volunteers!!
Hey all,
I must again apologize for such small font on the schedules. I wrote this whole long thing out, but the hamsters ate my post, so I'm going to summarize.
We bought a commercial printer/copier to be able to produce faster and better prints. The tech-guy inspected it and deemed it fine. Of course the printer (whom we named Fluffy) died the night before con. There was scrambling and help contributed from other department heads (thank you guys!) to try and reformat the schedule to be able to print at Kinko's. Alas, our hours of effort were in vain because the schedule turned out funky anyway. At this point we decided to format an excel sheet with the schedule and try to print from there. There were problems associated with this, but at this point, at 4am on Friday morning, we had to go to print.
We tried to print a small batch at first so I would be able to fix up the schedule and do a mass print job later, but that backfired with not enough people receiving the schedule.
Also, by the time I got to various Kinko's that night, many of them had long queues so we had to wait hours for our 10,000 print order to go through. By Saturday at noon, they arrived and they weren't at the standard to which I was hoping to produce.
I am not trying to excuse myself, only explain the situation so that you all know that I tried my best to produce something that could get you by. It's just bad luck this year, I suppose.
But next year I will have more back up plans and I will try my best to produce something that you will all enjoy.
RE: the program guideIf you have suggestions for next year's program guide, and would like to help implement these changes, feel free to e-mail me at
[email protected]. I am more than happy to get feedback on what I could do to improve the program guide for next year.
Btw, overall, was it ok? I heard the food map went over well, and I will try my best to print hours and price ranges for all of the restaurants next year.
I hope you all had an overall good time at the convention and I will see you next year!
the dealer's rooom is pretty good....but all the dealers have the same thing.. thing like naruto and bleach....so much kon and ichigo and naruto plush..
the area of lareine is the best.. cool music and good music
Oh, yeah, one more thing. I would've preferred to have women's Fanime shirts (i.e. babydoll) with a front print rather than a youth's t-shirt. I bought the youth one, but it doesn't fit nearly as well as a women's cut shirt would've. The only women's shirt was only available as XL and I think they were leftover from last year. I really really liked the pattern this year, and would've loved it even more if it was printed on the front, instead of the back.
i think i will go to fanime con 2007!
did anyone of you know the cheapets price of the hotel ????
i lived in hotel hilton, its so expensive!!!!
i wannt to have cheaper price!!!
Quote from: "Pimpstress Rei"Btw, overall, was it ok? I heard the food map went over well, and I will try my best to print hours and price ranges for all of the restaurants next year.
It was a really beautiful program guide -- I loved the artwork. :)
Marisa
Quote from: "Kyokun"Oh, yeah, one more thing. I would've preferred to have women's Fanime shirts (i.e. babydoll) with a front print rather than a youth's t-shirt. I bought the youth one, but it doesn't fit nearly as well as a women's cut shirt would've. The only women's shirt was only available as XL and I think they were leftover from last year. I really really liked the pattern this year, and would've loved it even more if it was printed on the front, instead of the back.
AMEN. I hate men's t-shirts. This is a gripe I am going to bring up myself at the staff dead dog. Honestly, men's t-shirts simply do not fit women very well, and if you have any sort of chest at all it makes you look terrible to have the shirt gape out in the front. Fitted shirts for women! Babydolls or something like that :) The days of cons having 100000 men - 1 woman attendance is over, we are now pretty much 50/50: and we deserve t-shirts for girls too! :D
just my 2 cents ^^
Marisa
I just wanna say I thought the rap was sorta out of place at a con, too, but I'm a big hip hop fan so I really dug it. But I guess family-friendliness is an issue.
I agree with Spiritsnare that Artist's Alley in the Exhibit Hall felt like Comiket! Well, as portrayed in Genshiken, anyway =b.
Also, I really appreciated when big events were announced in the Dealer's Room! I'd love more schedule reminders like this!
more signage at places, such as the entrance to the halls that have the video rooms and the like, in the hotels near where the video rooms are (like how the asian films rooms are way around the corner of the marriott, have the signs up closer to the convention itself with arrows), this way, i can figure out with a glance where things are- instead of "oh, i wonder if there is anything down this hall?" it would be "oh, look! panel rooms 1-3 are down this hall, and video rooms 5-8 are down that hall!", you know? it makes it a LOT easier.
unless there were such signs and i am blind. :P
I stuck around for the con gripes session on mon. The gripes were unusually "mild". Nobody was outright disappointed, just slightly bugged that there were a couple of small things which could of been done better.
I remember back in the "good old days" when the gripe session would reach near the "boiling point" as con goers seriously questioned if management had any competency whatsoever. To be honest some of those gripes had legitimacy!
However there were obvious mistakes made in the past which today would never slip past a more experienced upper-management team we have today compared to 5 years ago.
yes the fond memories. :D
Well, I might as well put in my 2 cents.
Gaming Room: 5 Stars: Totally awesome! Pleanty of good games and a ton of room. Almost too much room! Adding the Tabletop gaming in that Exibition hall would have helped, I think.
Artist Alley: 3 Stars: It was nice to be able to walk freely instead of around tables like last year. And I really got a good chance to look at everyone's artwork without worrying about hitting someone with something. But it didn't get much attention. There was this one artist that told me they had only sold two of the KH posters she made (me being the second person), which really surprised me. I thought they were wonderful and I've got it hanging on my wall. Not sure if it has anything to do with people's taste or the lack of advertisement to the room, but I thought I should bring that up. Also, the placement of some booths was kinda awkward. I didn't like having to travel all the way to the end of a row just to see one table. Better placement would have helped there.
Stage Zero: 4 Stars: that was a great addition. The quick draw competition was cool and they had a variety of great stuff. the rap was out of place though. And it did get crowded when something big was going on.
Dealers Room: 5 Stars: I personally had no problems here. Good job.
Viewing rooms: 5 Stars: Great Selection and large rooms. The Bleach marathon was fun and I was surprised to se Yakkate Japan there too (I didn't get to watch much though, I was dead tired). Air was definately fun to watch and the One Piece movies are always a blast.
Schedules: 2 Stars: Too small. Other than that they were easy to understand.
Mascarade: 3 Stars: Too many walk-ons all at once. It was crazy.
(I know that the last two have already been addressed but I wanted to say it anyway.)
I think that's it. I'll definately be coming back next year. Fanime is way too much fun to miss it!
Lisu's con experience:
First and foremost the Dealers room- awesome, I found things I didn't even know I would ever want, and got. Spent all my money Friday, and had to dip into other source (+plus it was so cool when Kamijo was there)
Artist alley-didn't really make this a priority...and regretted it. I personally love having it in its own room.
Masquerade- awesome, loved skits, even loved the walk ons, and yes, I did love the stage ninjas.
Music fest-dang, it was good...that's all.
Stage zero- made me laugh so much with some random stuff. Loved it.
Suggestions:
Signs! Posters! Big, colorful and maybe if possible have some art on them. Many things in danger of not having enough exposure (like artists alley) could have had one like: 'Artist alley' here...because, well, it was.
Hand schedules are one thing, but also poster sized ones at info booth could have helped very much. There was time I did not have one and had to wait in line to check stuff out.
During the masquerade, if possible, the announcer could say if the next thing is a walk on. Part of the "huh?" moments was when they said something, awesome costumes come out, and they abandon you with need for more. Just if we knew it'd be a walk on, we'd be ready.
Lastly is a minor one. But in some long lines, it could have helped to have an informative marker saying that some place wasn't the end of the line and pointed were. I understand that places need not be blocked, but I (and a couple others) got confused a couple times.
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3. People need to keep a better eye on the rave/dance. There were seriously three couples we caught having sex in there IN ONE NIGHT!
PICS OR IT DIDN"T HAPPEN! I heard about this and thought gee I think I wll take a vidcam with night vision incase that happens next year. Probally make $$$ for the con selling it on the internet.
Quote from: "Green_Tea"
5. THE GIRL WITH THE PURPLE HAIR SHOULD NOT SPEAK AT THE "HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS PANEL!" She would not even let the other panelists speak and had no idea what she was talking about. In fact, we left 20 minutes in after we heard one of the three other panelists say "Don't worry he's not going to get to talk any ways" when the guy was on his cell phone AT THE PANEL TABLE!! On a side note though, the how to talk to boys panel was hilarious
I thought one of them sounded like Courtney Love and LOL how all of them talked. LIKE YOU KNOW!! I just think people were there for the so-so eye candy but hey that is just me :-).
Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Masquerade:
Video Programming:
Not too thrilled this year. There were a couple Asian Live Action shows I enjoyed, but no much in the way of animé. I'm guessing something happened where fansub animé is no longer allowed to be played? Two years ago I was running from room to room all day to catch new animé I wanted to check out. Was much more laid back w/ only a couple shows I had to catch. This year, however, there were only 2 shows I wanted to see: one was the Shadow Chronicles preview that I missed because I was feeling ill, and the second was a typo on the schedule. -,-` All the rest of the animé that played was basically stuff I can just borrow from friends. *shrugs*
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We had fansubs running from video 1-8 which is spread out in the hotels and convention center. It sounds like you only watched the videos in the Marriot instead of going out in the CC (specifically across the marriot) and the Hilton.
What is strange about your complaint is that you have allready seen fansubs from your friends but then saying oh we are not showing them at fanime? HUH?
LOL
Quote from: "Kyokun"
Funimation’s premiere was good; I found some new anime to look forward too. Too bad everything was dubbed. But it still gave me a good enough preview. I wish more distributors had previews at Fanime.
Artist’s Alley was good in the Exhibit Hall. Except they needed more advertising. I walked by several times before I realized it was there.
We really hope to work on this more next year. Particularly in advertising the Artists Alley. There have already been a few good ideas spoken of for this that get me pretty pumped.
As for other industry support. Its up to them to come, they are always welcome =}
i saw many domo kun t-shirts. they r so adorable!!!!
but those fanime t-shirts are not well-designed, and they are 20 bucks each...
so expenisve.....
hope next year, the dealer's room have more gundam seed destiny figures
or naruto ones
Stage Zero was probably one of the coolest additions, I have one suggestion though:
For stage zero next year you should have a number of gaming tournaments, but with people who really don't know how to play. ^_^
I think that would be funny to see a few people who suck at games playing Smash Bros. or something like that...entertaining + prizes for participants.
That or stick with the typical gaming tournaments, but at Stage Zero. Random matchups for stuff like Guilt Gear X2, Soulcalibur games, etc...
That would rock.
What I liked and disliked? Anoo . . . here's a few:
liked:
meeting new people
cosplaying Edward Elric
hanging out
disliked:
drama happening around me
not going to the karaoke room as I originally planned
not practicing enough for the cosplay competition
Well...hm, seeing as I only went on the last day I don't really know how much of the rest of the weekend went, but let me just point out some things I found of interest. ^_^
I loved where the Artist Row was. It was easy to look at each individual artist and really see what they had, unlike last year where every time I returned it was like, 'Oh! I didn't even notice you!' Even though we weren't sure where it was at first ( since we weren't expecting it to have gotten moved xD ) it was easy to find ( I mean, the room was RIGHT THERE ) and overall, I just really love the way it was set up.
Also, just a little side note, the ladies at the Yaoi-Booth ( is there a way I can personally tell them this ) where SO nice! They were absolutely the sweetest ever. When I asked them to check the doujinshi's before I purchased them, I just explained to them the situation and they were more than willing to help. xD An extra thanks to them for me. ^_^
Hm..let's see, what else. Well, like I said, I didn't really do a whole lot, but this Monday was a nice pick-me-up, and a good turn around for Fanime I think, restoring my faith in it from my hellish time last year. Great Job!!
Couple of more:
Gotta agree on the Dealer's Room. Only one thing I really wanted to buy, and figured I could get it at AX for about the same price (though not at the booth of the licensing company which sells it). It just seemed that all the toy shops had the same toys and there wasn't really much difference.
Of course, I had to like this: Linda Tran, the model, sitting next to the booth for SiliCon. :)
Back to video: Almost wish they'd have people (not all the time) at the Info booths, especially with all the fansubs, that one could go up to and say "I like X, Y, and Z animes. What do you recommend from all these fansubs..." Didn't watch as much as the anime itself as I would want to.
I enjoyed the expansion to the artist's alley. Hopefully next year you guys will bring in some more well-known artists, like Scott of VG Cats, for example.
I also would have liked to see one of katie bair's wig workshops.
the schedule was hard to read...and the increased number of panels was kinda useless because who the hell knew what they meant? for example, "damn you internets". Why should i go see this panel when i have no clue what it meant? really vague, pointless panels like that one supply a truly last resort.
I got dragged to the 'how to talk to girls' panel, lingerie edition. let me tell you, that was a waste of time. even my desperate to see boobies guy friends got bored (i'm a girl). obviously the lingerie thing was just to get people to show up, and by the volume of people who left quickly you can see that the panelists failed to keep people's interests. basically, they rambled pointlessly, contradicted each other, and even ran into each other's sentences. it sounds like they didn't plan the panel in the least bit, even the part they were supposed to talk about on their own--without audience interruptions for questions etc. obviously the subject is very subjective and questionable, but the panel was very boring and dry--for men and women alike.
I would like to see an implemented time limit in the game room. Literally, the people playing in the morning are still there in the afternoon. You have to wait in a long line that doesn't move for hours. There MUST be some better way of regulating things so people don't hog the consoles/games for hours.
Um um um. That's all I can think of right now. Oh, the publicized cosplay gathering was a good idea even though I missed the Bleach & FF gatherings. I had a lot of fun this year, moreso than last!
Hello folks and thank you for attending FanimeCon 2006 and for all of your comments both good and bad. This year's goal was achieved, to have lots of programming. The goal next year is to polish what you saw this year and to add one more event to our busy schedule.
1. I promised this at Closing Ceremonies, and I will promise it now, with one modification-You will have a READABLE schedule online 2 weeks before con. Yes, we knew this was a problem last year and it should have been priority number one this year. Unfortunately, issues came up that made our schedule problems unavoidable. Damn Fluffy!
2. I am sorry folks, but Fanime has gotten TOO big for Artist Alley and Arcades on our concourse. Even if I put Stage Zero in Exhibit Hall 1 or didn't have it at all, the concourse was CROWDED! Now imagine tables, chairs, and Arcades! Sorry folks, but that is a change we will have to get used to.
3. I am happy that Stage Zero was well received, thank-you. Sean Barber, Mr. Wendell and I will be going over what worked and what didn't. I am not sure to take Stage Zero towards info and programming highlights or more programming. We will experiment and see. I don't want Stage Zero to be all AMV's all the time.
4. I am FULLY behind the CosPlay event that Marisa and Casey put on this year. For years I have heard from CosPlayers that we do not have a true craftsmanship award at Fanime and now we do. Remember, I want fans of CosPlay craftsmanship to have as much fun as those that like to perform in costume. For those who spend MONTHS building their costumes, they deserve to show their work in a comfortable way.
5. As the former Dealer's liaision, I have to say that the dealer's room had a great diversity which is what Dave and I have always wanted. Anime Jungle came back for the first time in 5 years! As for variety of product, that is because of our bootleg policy and dealer perception. Think about it, how vast is our video libraries right now? How could dealers carry all the merchandise you want? Dealers simply sell what is hot.
6. Stage One-our constant concert room-will be back but with much revamping and not so many bands. I saw more excitement for Kamijo than for the Yes Japan's groups.
Once again, thank you for your participation. I appreciate it. If you wish to be more active in next year's programming, please create a panel or join my staff. Your time and energy will be rewarded.
Thanks again!
STUPID THING GETTING RID OF ME! ... I keep typing these things and then timing out. *grumble* Anyhow, what I was trying to say (only now in short-and-sweet-form) was...
Dealers Room-- Though containing more variety, the Dealer Room felt like it was a lot of clone-booths. There were many old favorites that I was glad to see, and some new ones, though it seemed like a lot of the booths were carrying the same merchandise. If there is anything we can do to ensure a bit more variety while keeping the old favorites, I'd love to see something done.
Artist Alley-- No, no. I really liked that it was in the room. I think it could have been better laid out-- perhaps a big ol' ring of tables that people can walk a loop through or something. Dunno. But there need to be more signs.
My final gripe for the day is SIGNS!! Not just outside the doors to places, because once people have found it they've found it, but actual signs pointing down hallways explaining what's back there. "Down this hallway, Video Rooms 1-5" or "Down here Logistics, Con Ops, Rovers, Elevators" things like that would be very, very useful. Because it's not just a matter of finding the room itself, but establishing that you are in fact in the right hallway.
Aside from that, I have no complaints. I really enjoyed the con, during both on and off duty times. ^_^
We had a lot of fun this year. I personally liked how the 'Artist Alley' had it's own room. It's an Artist Area instead of an 'Alley' now, which IMO is much better and gives the Artist more room. Besides, with Stage Zero I think that it would've been insane to be out there with them. And I think that Stage Zero is a great idea with a lot of potential to kick out to put Artists back outside.
UNLESS- Here's my suggestion to try to compromise since I know that some of the Artists like it outside. Put a row of them along the wall that leads to the entrance of the Dealer's Room. Now they would get the foot traffic they want without crowding up Stage Zero. AND still keep the room. Basically giving the Artists the choice of outside or in.
Yes yes, I know... genius huh? :wink:
I thought the con was a blast, all the great things has already been mentioned.
Music - I thought the selection of bands were all solid.
Game room - really good selection of arcades, and lots of TVs and computers for gaming.
the list goes on.
There were some things though.
-Like people have noted, the schedule sheet wasn't looking too great. There wasn't enough to go around, and it was very hard to read. Especially the font mess up for the sunday schedule. (oh well, it happens.) but i believe the old schedule sheets were much easier to read.
-Anime selection - I think this was a bigger issue imo. There were 2 huge flaws in the selection.
One being the selection itself. I understand that there are people with different tastes and understandings toward anime, lots of hardcore fans, old skool, newbies, the works. What I don't understand is why is there series like Yugioh being shown. I would definately call some of the selections made rather "low end", and could've been replaced with more quality series that people can gain from. Maybe it was just me, but it felt like there were more empty chairs than the last couple of times I went to fanime.
My second issue is, why so many marathons? Don't get me wrong, great series were marathon-ed like honey and clovers, school rumble and bleach. But I think theres limitations on how much episodes one person can take. It might have been better if more shows were shown in pieces rather than sets of 25. People can take breaks without missing anything. It kinda sucks if someone gets tired after episode 10 and have to miss the rest.
I know a con is a con. and Fanime Con is smaller than AnimeExpo. but i see the same vendors year after year. con after con, all in different places.
The same person selling DVDs. the same Shop selling figures.
This really puts me down as i just tell myself.
"oh i'll just get it at AX since i know they'll be back"
or even worse
"i can find that on Yahoo Japan Auctions for cheaper, or HobbyLinkJapan or Amazon Japan, so on with Japan retail stores"
but i realize dealers are dealers and they pay FanimeCon to have a booth in the dealers room, so i dont know if there is a solution or if there even should be
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besides that...
yes like everyone said.
SIGNS
Which hall contains which viewing rooms and why was Video 5 viewing room in the Marriot with no obvious signs. i had to personally ask a staffer before they said "in the marriot".
take it as Fanime Con goers like myself are utterly retarded and dont know where anything is and dont want to ask staff people. this would help :)
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I am STILL Not sure why the dealers room has to have a special exit door and a special entrance door. even at AX. security? oh well..if it is security cause, isnt there anyway this can be fixed to compensate for the security.
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Dances, it would be nice if each night of the Dance there was a specific theme. 1 night hip hop, next night J-pop or J-rock, next night Electronica(Progressive Trance).
and tell us which night is when on the schedule.
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the water dispensers.....they were luke warm or room temperature..thats kinda..nasty....
does San Jose convention center charge for how many watts of power Fanime Con uses up per day? it wouldn't hurt to plug the dispensers up to the wall to give COOL and refreshing water eh? ;)
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I know this is a stretch since only a minor portion of people will care, but for viewing anime that is NOT licensed. It would be nice if you guys put which fansubbing group's version of the anime you are showing. Its a little extra, but it does help those who care about groups translations and what not.
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prob more but i can't think of anything right this moment
Quote from: "milkmandan"the water dispensers.....they were luke warm or room temperature..thats kinda..nasty....
does San Jose convention center charge for how many watts of power Fanime Con uses up per day? it wouldn't hurt to plug the dispensers up to the wall to give COOL and refreshing water eh? ;)
i know what you mean about the marriott ones; i walked all the way over to the hilton several times because the dispensers over there had nice cool water (:
another thing i forgot to mention earlier:
I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission. I just felt bad for her because she (as well as Eugene and JC) was really great, but not many people were paying attention.. which is fine because it was an intermission, but I think they deserve some kind of timeslot or situation where they can have a fully attentive audience!
The Good:
Location of Artist's Alley (or Row, whichever you prefer).
From what I hear, it was in the main path through the con last year - considering how many people travel through it as it was, I can't see that working now without artists getting ripped off, or having to be super-paranoid. Keeping it in a seperate place means you have to go out of the way, but in some cases it's worth the extra steps. :)
Stage Zero's "randomness".
It doesn't compare to what random stuff really goes on at night *wink wink* but it's still cool to catch something on the fly as you're coasting inbetween viewings/events.
That-Lady-With-The-Spray.
She was kinda hot, but since I didn't stink, she didn't come near me. 8) :(
The Bad:
There's Yaoi, and then there's...Yaoi?
This was my #1 gripe all con-long (and still is now). Yaoi. Yes, it's popular - understatement of the year - but for the love of all that is chibi, remember that there is this other genre called Yuri. :shock: I could lay on the floor in the Dealer's Room, spin myself in a circle, and still be facing a vendor that had Yaoi, but I would have to hunt (and I did) to find anything Yuri. Even some of the vendors were disappointed that there wasn't any - and this isn't just the DL; there wasn't really any viewing rooms or the like for it. I personally would be happy to get something up and running for the next Fanimecon, and even if I couldn't, it would be worth a shot.
The Confusing:
Masquerade: So Many Awards?
Okay, I can see that some of the participants spent more time than would would be deemed "normal" by any non-fan, but why were there so many awards given out? My mindset is that if there is a competition, and A, B, C and D all enter, if B is the best, why would C and D also get something? Maybe it didn't end like that; I zoned out after I saw all of the awards on the table. But near the end, it looked like there were 70% of the people who entered on stage, which makes no sense if "the best" should be the winners. :?:
I don't mean to come off in negative way (this being my first post here), but I've actually lurked around the forums before con. XD Just throwing my two cents into the pool that's this forum. :wink:
Quote from: "milkmandan"I am STILL Not sure why the dealers room has to have a special exit door and a special entrance door.
Having attended Fanime for half a decade already, I have a guess about this. In previous years (before moving to SJCC), the dealers room was horrendously crowded, and there were huge lines to get in. I think they had a limit on how many people can be in the room due to fire codes or something, so they could only let more people in when previous shoppers left. The separate exit was useful so that people who wanted to leave can do that very easily and didn't have to trip over a huge line to get out. Maybe they keep the entrance and exit still separated just in case there's a sudden demand and they have to implement flow control again.
Quote from: "milkmandan"the water dispensers.....they were luke warm or room temperature..thats kinda..nasty....
I don't think it's so much the temperature as the water. I think the first batch of water was really bottled water. After the first bottle ran out at each station, however, I think they replaced it with tap water. For people who aren't from San Jose, San Jose tap is from well water, unlike higher up on the penninsula (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, etc) where the water comes from the mountains. (My mom's friend used to work for some water district, so she knows all the details.) San Jose tap water is totally nasty stuff. I've learned to bring my own bottled water to Fanime ever since it moved to San Jose.
My biggest gripe is about the panel room. I tried to listen to the mangaka's panel, but the videos playing next door were really loud and drowned out the speakers on the panel. From the map in the program guide, the panel room looked like it was in the corner away from everything. Why was it moved?
I also wanted to suggest putting more of the anime and panel information into the programming guide. There's all that stuff for asian films. It'd be nice if there was something similar to that for panels and anime.
I didn't know that there was the tea ceremony and martial artists in the artists alley. Was that advertised somewhere that I missed? If I knew about them, I would've made time to go to them, but I didn't find out until after the con was already over. ;_; I hope they all come back next year, and if they do, I hope they're advertised better. I still want to see them.
Cool parts: the hentai/yaoi check-in stuff was neat, Stage Zero was a great idea, the artist alley was awesome, the guests were wonderful, the cosplay (for those of us who stayed until the end) was utterly spectacular, the craftsmanship judging category was neat, the very wide selection of videos of all types was excellent.
Actually, I wanted to go back and point out the cosplay judging. I think it was great the way the judges explained why the winners won. Previously, several of the winners just didn't seem any better than the people who didn't win. This year, though, with the judges explaining, I feel that I understood better why the winners deserved their win. I think those few extra sentences (even as hasty as they were) made the awards part interesting and worthwhile. In previous years, the awards just felt like such a let-down. I'm not a cosplayer, and I don't know any of them, so I wasn't emotionally invested in the winner, but I still almost felt bitter about a few of the winners. This year's awards might've been hasty, but I thought they were much more satisfying. I particularly agreed with the Utena, Rose of Versailles, Lost in Translation, and Puyopuyo awards. Those judges totally rocked, and I hope they come back and do the same thing next year. I know they said who they were before they gave the awards, but I didn't write it down. Can someone post that information please?
Overall, great con!
Quote from: "happysky"I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission.
I thought her name was Mai-yuu, but whatever her name was, I totally agree that she was great!! People who left missed out. The Karaoke winner was really good too. So was Travelling Valentine. And the AMV awards. The extra add-ons to the Masquerade were all excellent by themselves. Heck, they were so good that it might've been worth sitting through all the acts just to watch the intro, intermission, USA Musume, and the AMVs even if all the cosplayers sucked (which they didn't). Maybe it would've prevented some people from leaving if, before letting people go for break, the host mentioned that they were going to show USA Musume and AMV finals to people who stayed until the end.
Quote from: "Nyxyin"Quote from: "happysky"I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission.
I thought her name was Mai-yuu, but whatever her name was, I totally agree that she was great!!
sorry, that might be her stage name? i couldn't really hear what she/the group was announced as, but i know her as masako through someone else.. ^^;
Quote from: "Nyxyin"Quote from: "milkmandan"I am STILL Not sure why the dealers room has to have a special exit door and a special entrance door.
Having attended Fanime for half a decade already, I have a guess about this. In previous years (before moving to SJCC), the dealers room was horrendously crowded, and there were huge lines to get in. I think they had a limit on how many people can be in the room due to fire codes or something, so they could only let more people in when previous shoppers left. The separate exit was useful so that people who wanted to leave can do that very easily and didn't have to trip over a huge line to get out. Maybe they keep the entrance and exit still separated just in case there's a sudden demand and they have to implement flow control again.
Quote from: "milkmandan"the water dispensers.....they were luke warm or room temperature..thats kinda..nasty....
I don't think it's so much the temperature as the water. I think the first batch of water was really bottled water. After the first bottle ran out at each station, however, I think they replaced it with tap water. For people who aren't from San Jose, San Jose tap is from well water, unlike higher up on the penninsula (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, etc) where the water comes from the mountains. (My mom's friend used to work for some water district, so she knows all the details.) San Jose tap water is totally nasty stuff. I've learned to bring my own bottled water to Fanime ever since it moved to San Jose.
I dont mind the water too much as i can stand tap water.
I live in LA and we get all our water from you guys..so yeah...
I just like it cool, plus walking around from end to end at the convention center can get someone thirsty. some nice refreshing Cold water would be nice hahaha but i guess i am pushing it
As for the flow of the people in the rooms. :) why not just make it like Ikea, where each person who enters the room has to shop through the ENTIRE DEALERS ROOM. Mwahhaha~ that be great :)
If I am not posting about it then I either liked it or did not attend.
cons:
1.Game room could have been a little larger and had more stuff like last year.
2. Stamp rally was crap this year. Very little organization for it and when it was finally setup, there was a lack of maps for the contest. I have no idea why they did not include the map in the program guide like last year.
3. Schedules could have been a bit better this year.
4. Too many marathons.
Most of my complaints have been hit upon.
The one that pissed me off the most though was the winner of the Best Comedy. I was in the Wii are Ninjas group and I heard the audiance laughing hystaricly at our skit. The one that won I didn't hear to much laughing.
I was really satisfied with all of the marathons, though I missed some due to the fact that I didn't have a map till saturday night and the schedules where somewhat hard to read.
But this was my first fanime and I loved how it was orginized my expectations of it where blown away with the reality of it.
Quote from: "lyricaldanichan"Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Masquerade:
Video Programming:
Not too thrilled this year. There were a couple Asian Live Action shows I enjoyed, but no much in the way of animé. I'm guessing something happened where fansub animé is no longer allowed to be played? Two years ago I was running from room to room all day to catch new animé I wanted to check out. Was much more laid back w/ only a couple shows I had to catch. This year, however, there were only 2 shows I wanted to see: one was the Shadow Chronicles preview that I missed because I was feeling ill, and the second was a typo on the schedule. -,-` All the rest of the animé that played was basically stuff I can just borrow from friends. *shrugs*
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We had fansubs running from video 1-8 which is spread out in the hotels and convention center. It sounds like you only watched the videos in the Marriot instead of going out in the CC (specifically across the marriot) and the Hilton.
What is strange about your complaint is that you have allready seen fansubs from your friends but then saying oh we are not showing them at fanime? HUH?
LOL
Maybe I did miss it. I spent a couple hours over the con looking through the schedule to find things to watch, but kept seeing shows that were already released out here. Berserk, Bubblegum Crisis, Kenshin, Akira, Guyver, Gankutsuou, Jin Roh, Tetsujin 28. I don't know, I guess the licensed stuff popped out more, though it may be that I couldn't actually read a lot of the names on the Sunday/Monday schedule....
Quote from: "Monica"Most of my complaints have been hit upon.
The one that pissed me off the most though was the winner of the Best Comedy. I was in the Wii are Ninjas group and I heard the audiance laughing hystaricly at our skit. The one that won I didn't hear to much laughing.
I was really satisfied with all of the marathons, though I missed some due to the fact that I didn't have a map till saturday night and the schedules where somewhat hard to read.
But this was my first fanime and I loved how it was orginized my expectations of it where blown away with the reality of it.
Which was the skit that won for best comedy?
Cons:
* Please extend registration hours, at least for people who pre-registered! One thing I did not like was the fact that registration closed at 8 p.m. on Friday. I work full-time and had a three-hour drive to the con, and I got there at 8:15 p.m., right after registration closed. Even though I had my pre-reg receipt, I couldn't get a badge that night and had no way to attend any events that required badges until registration opened the next morning. (I ended up signing up as a volunteer so I could get a badge...but still, I would rather have gotten my member badge on Friday night.)
* You know about the con schedules. ^_~
* The dealer's room needed more variety when it came to anime merchandise, but I did love the Asian clothing retailers and
* I heartily second the call for convention T-shirts in women's sizes. I had to buy a child's size shirt and it is still quite ill-fitting. Also...twenty bucks is a little steep for the con shirts, considering their quality. I bet you would sell more of them at $15 and would sell out at $10.
* The rap on Stage Zero. Loved Stage Zero, but hated the rapping.
(the following gripes aren't Fanime's fault, but still:)
* Random gentlemen. Please stop asking for hugs and trying to kiss me in the hallways if I DO NOT KNOW YOU.
* Mean people who yell rude things at karaoke singers, masquerade participants, Brian Doan, and fashion show participants. You're not funny.
Pros:
* The people. I was the "sign girl" at the end of the masquerade line, pointing out where the end of the line was (anybody have pictures of that, by the way?). Most people were really nice to me and followed instructions to not crowd, stay in single file, etc. So thanks guys, you were great!
* The program. Very nice. A big improvement on previous years.
* The map of places to eat. A godsend! Thank you.
* The masquerade. I'm not understanding the hate toward walk-ons, I think you'll find that the people who do walk-ons have some of the most intricate and well-done costumes, and it's a pleasure to see them.
* MusicFest. I adored it this year. Bring Miami back, as well as GoofyStyle!
* Artist Alley and the gaming section each having huge rooms. Awesome.
Overall, the con rocked. Thanks to everyone who participated in running it, it must have been a huge endeavor and we all had a great time! :)
QuoteAlso, people would be able to leave their stuff and setups behind because the room was locked up at night when they were finished.
And stuff still got stolen despite everything being "locked up". I NEVER left ANY of my stuff there in the Alley. Ever.
My one gripe (and since I was there most of the time, I suppose it's my only gripe) was Artist "Row". As an artist this year was SO HORRIBLE. If I completely stretched every nickel and dime I made I MAYBE hit half of what I made last year. Maybe.
The set up for it was awful. I looked back at some of the tables and lots there were 3 or 4 tables empty between artists. I know why they had the seating chart and all but it seemed like everything was... too organized? Some artists may have not come back because of having to get the permit since we all have to report back on our sales and pay taxes on them. That was something we never had to do before. We also had to pay $5 a table or $40 for a 'powered table', which hasn't been done for years either (especially the powered table thing). It almost seemed they put it in a bigger room so they could maximize profits from the tables, as if you could by $5 a table... but still. It felt very empty. I know it was the guy's first year who was running it this year, and no offense to him since I don't think he had any control over where it was placed or anything, but I sorely miss Ted.
I don't think that I talked to any artist that didn't take a hit on sales this year, or any that were really happy with the way that anything was set up, or that we were in a different room. There was even a petition (which I signed, of course) to try and get it back out on the concourse (but, as a staffer said it won't happen, but it never hurts to let someone know how you feel!). The person with the petition informed me that there were many people with artwork stolen this year, some even from the Artists Gallery! I was really shocked since I thought it was stupid to even have a lock up time of 7pm for the "Row".
Perhaps it was because of my sourness at the Artist's "Row", but this year... just didn't feel like Fanime. Which is sad since I've moved across the states 2 years ago when I got married and last year and this year I've flown back just for it. Maybe I'm just better off sticking to Otakon 15 minutes away. :\
~ Jen Brooks
Studio Eternity Artist
Quote from: "LawyerGirl"* The map of places to eat. A godsend! Thank you.
I definitely liked the map of local restaurants that was in the program this year. We hit Tandoori for lunch on Sunday and we were craving curry again the next day. I hope the map stays in the program, because it really helps those who don't want to eat McDonald's or Jack in the Box all weekend.
Yes! I found Tandoori Oven through that map also. I loved it, and will definitely eat there again next year.
Overall, I thought the con was a nice improvement compared to previous years. Stage Zero was good. I liked the bigger artist area. The dance in a smaller room was good, although perhaps one a little larger next year would be good (but definitely not the huge hall used in 2005).
My main complaint is about video rooms 6 and 7, which happened to be showing 90% of the anime I wanted to watch (yeah, I'm a shoujo addict). If there were more than around 10 people in the room, some of the people will not be able to see the subtitles, since the subtitles were at a lower height than where people's heads were, so I always had to end up sitting on the floor, or slouching a massive amount to the people behind me could see. If you're to use those rooms again next year, even though it would make the visible screen smaller, I'd recommend tilting the projector up, so that the bottom of the visible screen is just above top-of-head level, then most everyone should be able to see the subtitles comfortably. Anyway, it was still a nice improvement over the TV that was plugged in one of those rooms last year!
Quote from: "Wasteland"Overall, I thought the con was a nice improvement compared to previous years. Stage Zero was good. I liked the bigger artist area. The dance in a smaller room was good, although perhaps one a little larger next year would be good (but definitely not the huge hall used in 2005).
My main complaint is about video rooms 6 and 7, which happened to be showing 90% of the anime I wanted to watch (yeah, I'm a shoujo addict). If there were more than around 10 people in the room, some of the people will not be able to see the subtitles, since the subtitles were at a lower height than where people's heads were, so I always had to end up sitting on the floor, or slouching a massive amount to the people behind me could see. If you're to use those rooms again next year, even though it would make the visible screen smaller, I'd recommend tilting the projector up, so that the bottom of the visible screen is just above top-of-head level, then most everyone should be able to see the subtitles comfortably. Anyway, it was still a nice improvement over the TV that was plugged in one of those rooms last year!
I agree.. I had to move to the front of most rooms so I could read the subtitles.. I dont care if you have to make the projection smaller. Just arc the projector a little higher please.
Quote from: "angeljibrille"
For those who have commented on the emcee, that was Brian aka Dieter, who has hosted just about every single Masquerade for the past 10 years or so at Fanime... it wasn't a new guy... we just took over the organization of the background stuff and Brian returned to emcee. Brian just wanted to retire his "Dieter" persona for a while.
We hope to see you back next year.
Thanks,
Marisa
Masquerade Coordinator
Hosted 10 years?!?!?! I haven't done it THAT long!!!! :shock: This was my sixth year as a host of a cosplay event at Fanime and my first year not serving as event coordinator. :D
It was far easier to just be a part of a cosplay event. (sigh) where did my youth go? :cry:
Quote from: "Monica"Which was the skit that won for best comedy?
Best Comedic Skit Gomu Mochi
Maes Hughes (Full Metal Alchemist), by Hiku
Roy Mustang (Full Metal Alchemist), by Aya
I thought it was quite funny considering the voice-overs were recorded by guys, there was a cute song & dance, and a hint of yaoi..
In the end, it's whether or not the judges were amused to decide on who to give the award for best comedy to.
Quote from: "Blue-Six"There's Yaoi, and then there's...Yaoi?
This was my #1 gripe all con-long (and still is now). Yaoi. Yes, it's popular - understatement of the year - but for the love of all that is chibi, remember that there is this other genre called Yuri. :shock: I could lay on the floor in the Dealer's Room, spin myself in a circle, and still be facing a vendor that had Yaoi, but I would have to hunt (and I did) to find anything Yuri. Even some of the vendors were disappointed that there wasn't any - and this isn't just the DL; there wasn't really any viewing rooms or the like for it. I personally would be happy to get something up and running for the next Fanimecon, and even if I couldn't, it would be worth a shot.
Seconded!
Also, I remembered a few other things:
Video Rooms 6 & 7: Having projectors instead of TVs was great. Unfortunately, those rooms have rather low ceilings, so when anyone of somewhat average height or taller sat down, everyone behind him or her completely lost sight of the subtitles. It was extremely frustrating. I also encountered video problems in rooms 6 and 7 more than once: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha had terrible playback issues. It was like the file was corrupted, because it kept looping back, displaying artifacts, and stuff. Also, I went to see Hitsuji no Uta, and they didn't have the DVD at all, so they just showed more School Rumble. Okay, I have nothing against School Rumble, but it's a lot easier to find than HnU! Oh, also, I was upset when at 6am in Video Room 1, Macross came on instead of Haibane Renmei. I was hoping so bad for it, too!
AMV Contest: I loved the "24" theme, and overall the preparedness of the presentation was excellent, as it was last year. However... the showing itself was really disappointing compared to last year! Was it that the judges picked the wrong finalists, or were the entries really just that much weaker than last year? No offense to anyone who entered this year, but last year's Das Omen, Apocalypse Now, Vash the Desperado, the Patlabor one, 2525, Muppet Hunter D, 1985, Lord of the Yen, AMG Darkness, and company completely blew this year's showing out of the water. What the hell?
Asian Cinema: One thing I remembered is that in some of the rooms here, the projectors were kind of midway forward on tall stands, so that they were
blocking the subtitles! Generally they weren't full enough that I couldn't find a seat that wasn't, but still, that's a lot of seats which were no good because of the projector's location.
Quote from: "happysky"
I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission. I just felt bad for her because she (as well as Eugene and JC) was really great, but not many people were paying attention.. which is fine because it was an intermission, but I think they deserve some kind of timeslot or situation where they can have a fully attentive audience!
This was probably the most bizarre thing that happened to me while running Fanime's Masquerade. There was NEVER intended to be an "intermission" -- none -- we were introducing the next performance, a set by Maiyu and Luno (her band) and it took a few moments to set up her equipment. Everyone on my staff was in absolute shock when everyone started standing up, talking, walking around, etc.... right in the middle of the performance. We were honestly horrified. I was running around the theater myself trying to get people to sit back down, especially the cosplayers who were wandering around with non-peace-bonded equipment which was completely prohibited and against various violations. When I went to go ask the union staff to bring the house lights down to indicate that this was not an intermission, I discovered the lighting/sound union theater staff had disappeared on a break-- they figured since everyone else was getting up that it was a scheduled break (even though it was not in our script or our program).
I later found out that Fanime has traditionally had an "intermission" the past couple of years. The last Fanime Masquerade I attended was still at the old Santa Clara Convention center before they moved to the new SJCC, and we never had an intermission in Santa Clara, so I did not know that enough people expected an intermission. We almost did not make our cutoff time (11:00pm) because of this "intermission"- Maiyu-san had only planned for 3 songs and we already had people staged backstage for the next skit. Fortunately, there was not this confusion with the USA Musume presentation, but I feel awful for Maiyu and Luno about the situation that I couldn't do anything to "fix".
My sincere apologies to Maiyu and Luno and to the audience as well that there was this accidental miscommunication with the audience and obviously with the union staff. We will NOT be able to afford time for an "intermission" in the future with our limited schedule in the theater based on blocked union time, so instead of making it confusing by having a special performance in the middle, we are just going to slog through all the skits next year and put any special peformance at the end during the judging break.
My apologies to all,
Marisa
Masquerade Coordinator
Quote from: "Nyxyin"Those judges totally rocked, and I hope they come back and do the same thing next year. I know they said who they were before they gave the awards, but I didn't write it down. Can someone post that information please?
Wayne Kaa, Wayne Carter, Jenny Newman, and Chrissy Jaio
Thanks :)
Marisa
Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Which was the skit that won for best comedy?
It was the "yaoi" Hughes x Mustang skit (from Fullmetal Alchemist).
You can see all the awards here:
http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?t=4984
Quote from: "Blue-Six"There's Yaoi, and then there's...Yaoi?
This was my #1 gripe all con-long (and still is now). Yaoi. Yes, it's popular - understatement of the year - but for the love of all that is chibi, remember that there is this other genre called Yuri. :shock: I could lay on the floor in the Dealer's Room, spin myself in a circle, and still be facing a vendor that had Yaoi, but I would have to hunt (and I did) to find anything Yuri. Even some of the vendors were disappointed that there wasn't any - and this isn't just the DL; there wasn't really any viewing rooms or the like for it. I personally would be happy to get something up and running for the next Fanimecon, and even if I couldn't, it would be worth a shot.
I third this. Yuri probably holds a larger fan base anyways.
Hmmm..if Yuri is allowed i wonder if loli will ever get a part in Fanime Con.
Then again there is always Yuricon (w/ lolicon for that).
Quote from: "mDuo13"
Also, I remembered a few other things:
Video Rooms 6 & 7: Having projectors instead of TVs was great. Unfortunately, those rooms have rather low ceilings, so when anyone of somewhat average height or taller sat down, everyone behind him or her completely lost sight of the subtitles. It was extremely frustrating. I also encountered video problems in rooms 6 and 7 more than once: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha had terrible playback issues. It was like the file was corrupted, because it kept looping back, displaying artifacts, and stuff. Also, I went to see Hitsuji no Uta, and they didn't have the DVD at all, so they just showed more School Rumble. Okay, I have nothing against School Rumble, but it's a lot easier to find than HnU! Oh, also, I was upset when at 6am in Video Room 1, Macross came on instead of Haibane Renmei. I was hoping so bad for it, too!
The Nanoha showing prob just had a bad DVD format encode from fansub. Which fansubs did they use? Triad? AIR turned out fine.
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AMV Contest: I loved the "24" theme, and overall the preparedness of the presentation was excellent, as it was last year. However... the showing itself was really disappointing compared to last year! Was it that the judges picked the wrong finalists, or were the entries really just that much weaker than last year? No offense to anyone who entered this year, but last year's Das Omen, Apocalypse Now, Vash the Desperado, the Patlabor one, 2525, Muppet Hunter D, 1985, Lord of the Yen, AMG Darkness, and company completely blew this year's showing out of the water. What the hell?
Yes, last years was better. I guess you can't have great AMVs all the time :\ but this years was good but just not as good as last years
Quote from: "milkmandan"Quote from: "Blue-Six"There's Yaoi, and then there's...Yaoi?
This was my #1 gripe all con-long (and still is now). Yaoi. Yes, it's popular - understatement of the year - but for the love of all that is chibi, remember that there is this other genre called Yuri. :shock: I could lay on the floor in the Dealer's Room, spin myself in a circle, and still be facing a vendor that had Yaoi, but I would have to hunt (and I did) to find anything Yuri. Even some of the vendors were disappointed that there wasn't any - and this isn't just the DL; there wasn't really any viewing rooms or the like for it. I personally would be happy to get something up and running for the next Fanimecon, and even if I couldn't, it would be worth a shot.
I third this. Yuri probably holds a larger fan base anyways.
Hmmm..if Yuri is allowed i wonder if loli will ever get a part in Fanime Con.
Then again there is always Yuricon (w/ lolicon for that).
I've just got to say, in response to this point. I don't object to Yuri, I know a lot of people really like it, but the reason we have Yaoi is because the Yaoi-Con ladies come down and the fangirls (and fanboys) are insane... essentially, the fans make the market.
(I'm not sure where you actually stand on the "Loli" bit, but I'm throwing my two cents toward that comment as well.)
And Fanime attempts to be a
family con. No offense meant, but if we show loli yuri then it's going to freak out a lot of parents and we run the risk of scaring off much of our younger fan base.
Essentially, what I'm saying... is that I know we may already have a Loli fan base at Fanime, but having Loli Yuri could easily encourage them to act out a bit. And honestly, I don't like the idea of some of the Loli fans being around the younger children we can get at con. (Yes, I am aware that liking that particular genre does not automatically make you a child molester or anything of the sort, but I think that is a valid concern nonetheless).
That's all I really wanted to say about that.
I agree completely with E-chan on all counts in this case. Showing 'Lolicon' items, which are a form of Hentai which is often not legal to show in public places because it involves sex with underage individuals, has really no place at Fanime.
Quote from: "Leishu"I agree completely with E-chan on all counts in this case. Showing 'Lolicon' items, which are a form of Hentai which is often not legal to show in public places because it involves sex with underage individuals, has really no place at Fanime.
On a non-serious note, it is amusing to see some warnings on hentai movie and game sported over to the US that say "The characters depicted are all 18 and older"...
... Not that I buy that kind of stuff.
Artist Alley
First of all I want to thank all of you that attended the Artist Alley this year. I'm glad that you all had a good time and were all very lenient on me, this being my first year. That being said next year I have all the reason to make the Artist Alley a much better experience. Thank you for all your comments and suggestions; they will be most helpful for making the Alley much much better in the years to come. We will work very hard to make the Alley much more visible next year.
Thank you for attending FanimeCon 2006 and we'll see you in 07!
~ Masato
One suggestion: Don't ever make the Tabletop gaming room that small ever again lol.
Quote from: "E-Chan"And Fanime attempts to be a family con. No offense meant, but if we show loli yuri then it's going to freak out a lot of parents and we run the risk of scaring off much of our younger fan base.
While I'm for having Yuri at Fanimecon, I agree with you on that - s'obvious not everything is okay for the general public/younger audiences. That's why I think that if/when Yuri is "introduced", it should be in a reasonable amount at first, rather than pummeling the masses with it. :P
AMV CONTEST
I just wanted to say thank you to Scott for how incredibly smooth the AMV contest went this year. It actually started ON TIME, the editing was excellent, no AMVS were lost/misplaced; I was extremely impressed!! Oh, and the links to the winners are already up, too! THANK YOU, SCOTT!
Quote from: "Blue-Six"Quote from: "E-Chan"And Fanime attempts to be a family con. No offense meant, but if we show loli yuri then it's going to freak out a lot of parents and we run the risk of scaring off much of our younger fan base.
While I'm for having Yuri at Fanimecon, I agree with you on that - s'obvious not everything is okay for the general public/younger audiences. That's why I think that if/when Yuri is "introduced", it should be in a reasonable amount at first, rather than pummeling the masses with it. :P
I'm not against Yuri itself-- we have Hentai and Yaoi rooms, it'd be hypocritical to say no to Yuri just for being adult. I was objecting more to the Loli portion.
Quote from: "E-Chan"Quote from: "Blue-Six"Quote from: "E-Chan"And Fanime attempts to be a family con. No offense meant, but if we show loli yuri then it's going to freak out a lot of parents and we run the risk of scaring off much of our younger fan base.
While I'm for having Yuri at Fanimecon, I agree with you on that - s'obvious not everything is okay for the general public/younger audiences. That's why I think that if/when Yuri is "introduced", it should be in a reasonable amount at first, rather than pummeling the masses with it. :P
I'm not against Yuri itself-- we have Hentai and Yaoi rooms, it'd be hypocritical to say no to Yuri just for being adult. I was objecting more to the Loli portion.
Mm, gotcha. (I keep reflexively wanting to use deviantART's emotes. :oops: )
Not to sway this conversation off the whole yaoi/yuri debate (which is really a can of worms I'd like to stay far, far away from), did anyone here catch the film Welcome to Dongmakgol on Saturday in Asian Film 1? It was a film about some soldiers that end up in a magical mountain village? It was on at 10PM on Saturday.
I'd really like to know if anyone was able to catch that film, and what the response to that film was. Thanks.
Quote from: "rctan9"One suggestion: Don't ever make the Tabletop gaming room that small ever again lol.
Amen to that. Just walking by that room with the door open was enough to make people's skin melt off...
Someone needs to go in there with the mega-phone and repeat the message "SOAP IS YOUR FRIEND"
No offense to anyone in there of course. <3
Quote from: "phr34kish"Quote from: "rctan9"One suggestion: Don't ever make the Tabletop gaming room that small ever again lol.
Amen to that. Just walking by that room with the door open was enough to make people's skin melt off...
Someone needs to go in there with the mega-phone and repeat the message "SOAP IS YOUR FRIEND"
No offense to anyone in there of course. <3
Oddly enough, that was so true. Good thing I didn't stay TOO long in there... But yeah, the room was much too small to do a magic draft...and of course, it smelled like...BO...but so did the "rave."
Hey all! Oniko here! ^_~ Yes, Oniko from Stage Zero... I just wanted to say thanks for the feedback on Fanime Con's first ever Stage Zero show. It was crazie tho I tell you for those of us workin on it XP Sooooo many things kept happenin all at once throughout the entire con and kept us Stage Zero Staff busy ^^; In anycase, I rather had a lot of fun, tho it was way tiring (I'm sure you all could tell huh? When I was up there I bet I always looked a mess XDD) In anycase, I just wanted to say that the rap things seemed outta place to me too... a lot of the stuff that happened was kind of jumped on some of us hosts and hostesses last minute folks so please don't get mad at all of us for the hecticness and randomness that surrounded the stage o.O But other than that, you all seemed to like the AMVs the music videos, the updates on what's goin around the con on the hour every hour ^_^ (I was approached by a lot of con goers who said it was very useful), also the competitions and giving out of prizes and free stuff (Who doesn't like that? XD) and so forth ^_^ Keep the suggestions comin folks ok? :D
Oh yeah, and while we are on the topic of yuri being included in Fanime... well those who really know me well know that I am all up for that ^^ I agree with blue-six AND E-chan... Tho the loli thing does seem to be pushin things... but if you think about it, yaoi is already made known and seems to be more acceptable for some reason... plus I dunno if it's just me but I notice a whole lot of shota too... ;>.> Don't want to get into politics of it all here XP Tho why is it that yaoi and shounen-ai and shota are way more accepted than yuri, shoujo-ai, n the like?
Yeah, I can see where E-Chan is coming from and agree with her, in case people didn't think I was. :P And it's not really a debate, since even if Yuri was/wasn't included, I can't see Yaoi going anywhere (it's got a *very* dedicated fanbase at con and elsewhere). XD I'm just the kind of person who's willing to take some action and help work something out with the staff instead of twiddle my fingers around and only half-heartedly suggest. 8)
Not to say none of you would, but, yeah. :D
Enjoyed fanime immensely.The asian film rooms never disappoint me.(I was always late for the movies,but my fault,not theirs.)
The dealers room was more or less the same.Except I liked those kung fu jackets that were being sold.
Artist alley:pros and cons to that.They made the center of the con more lively,but at the same time I was glad I could go into big room to see them all.
One big complaint I can't let go.Some of the viewing rooms didn't have the schedules up outside the doors.Which meant we didn't know if their had been a change in schedule.I came into one room expecting one thing and seeing another.Especially at stage zero.We had to ask the staff working there why who's line is it anime? was playing instead of 3minute video.
And speaking of that,3minute was pretty much given the death sentence of 10:00 am monday morning.It was only 4 other people watching with me.I think something being tested out like this would deserve a better time.
Overall,good con.And I hope you guys are able to fix these problems.
One point to Lawyer Girl:
I'm sure you didn't have one of these signs, but I saw quite a number of "HUG ME!" signs from the ladies.
Given the stereotypical lack of social grace of an otaku, some of them probably took it as open season.
Quote from: "Glitch"One big complaint I can't let go.Some of the viewing rooms didn't have the schedules up outside the doors.Which meant we didn't know if their had been a change in schedule.I came into one room expecting one thing and seeing another.Especially at stage zero.We had to ask the staff working there why who's line is it anime? was playing instead of 3minute video.
And speaking of that,3minute was pretty much given the death sentence of 10:00 am monday morning.It was only 4 other people watching with me.I think something being tested out like this would deserve a better time.
Overall,good con.And I hope you guys are able to fix these problems.
As part of Stage Zero staff I really must apologize for that ^^; Us hosts and hostesses were all tossed around a lot at the con this year since A LOT of the program scheduling was tossed about... we didn't know that a lot of these changes were going to happen.... they jus kinda hit us with all these changes WAAAAAAY last minute XP We'd be up on stage about to do our thing and what our original program schedule said when all of a sudden someone would come up to us and tell us a change had been made ^^; If you were really watchin stage zero all of you guys out there XD You will know that happened A LOT remember? ^^; "So anyways folks, next up we...eh? o.O Oh! ^^; Looks like we've yet ANOTHER guest with an announcement once again....(Oy vey...)"
I'm sorry if I'm repeating some points. I don't have time or patience to read through the other entries...
Pre-Registration: I always wonder why don't you guys put the pre-reg badges in order of the registration number. It would be a lot easier to pull out that 90 people pre-reg group. Not only, you won't mistaken some badges.. some people have the same names. It would be very bad if one Stephanie Ho had picked up another badge that actually belonged to another Stephanie Ho. (sorry if that didn't make sense.. =-=;;) But I was actually surprised as to how fast they got the badges for my group though. Last year it took me 45 minutes to pick up 60 badges. This year it only took an hour for 90 people. :D
Schedule: I had a horrible time reading the schedules. Because of that I missed a lot of programming that I would have loved to attend. I think the format of the schedule was great.. it was just the font size that pissed the hell out of me.
Swap Meet: I think the swap meet was great this year. O_O It was open on Thursday as well! Yay!
Dealers Room: it seems like there were less dealers this year. I also don't like how the layout was for the booths this year. When the dealers are lined up by rows, it seems like there are more of them. aka. maybe put Gaia and that other dealer at the back of the room. It creates an illusion that there are more dealers. It also seems like it is getting harder to bargain/haggle with the dealers. T-T There weren't a lot of dealers selling artbooks either. There was only one dealer that I saw that was selling sheet music...
Stage Zero: I think this is a great idea. But I couldn't see much of what was on the screen.
The MusicFest was absolutely great. I just wish that there was a larger crowd. They certainly deserved a larger crowd. I also thought that the techs were going to do something interesting with the lighting this year. T-T the lighting was really boring this year. last year was even more so for the lighting. at least this year the lighting did change... a bit. Other than that... I think you should invite these artists again! :] I enjoyed their performance.
Masquerade: I don't have much problems with walk ons. I just wish that the camera dude for the huge projector would zoom up(at least a little bit more) on them some more... that way I can see the details of the costumes... x_x (my poor eyes)
There was also a horrible smoking problem at Fanime this year? I dunno, it might have been just me, but I just felt that they could have controlled where people were smoking at...
Yeah. I think that was about it. Other than the fact that I felt like there were no lines this year. o-O I was totally surprised at the dealers room line... it was so short! Ramen and Rice wasn't there either.. (boohoo! .. and yes I know why they weren't there. T-T)
Oh yeah. did the quality of the mics this year for the music fest down grade? o_o or is that just me?
Yeah, I was one of the hosts of Stage Zero. And I was also one of the appointed Stage Ninjas at the Masquerade. Yes, I was the one with the beanie.
Stage Zero is a GREAT idea but, as Oniko mentioned, it was a barrage of changes that were thrown at us and we were just like, "What? Are you serious?" The people behind-the-scenes will probably implement more of an open schedule for Stage Zero.
I hope everyone had a great time. Keep up with the feedback.
Quote from: "Rey-Rey"Yeah, I was one of the hosts of Stage Zero. And I was also one of the appointed Stage Ninjas at the Masquerade. Yes, I was the one with the beanie.
Stage Zero is a GREAT idea but, as Oniko mentioned, it was a barrage of changes that were thrown at us and we were just like, "What? Are you serious?" The people behind-the-scenes will probably implement more of an open schedule for Stage Zero.
I hope everyone had a great time. Keep up with the feedback.
I know Kuya! XD EVERYTIME remember? lol We be about to do our thing when :shock: EH?!! Again? Another cancellation? another change? XDD
"Let's toss T-Shirts... wait, we have an announcement!"
"Let's play this AMV... Bran, what are you doing here? Asian Film Announcement?"
"Next, we have... oh, we have an announcement."
"I have to go pee. Wait, before I go pee, we have an announcement."
"Next up we have a lil game with prizes for you all---eh? :shock: ANOTHER announcement? ^^;"
"By the way, I'm dying from cancer. But who cares about that?! We have an announcement to make!"
I had a wonderful time this year. This was my first Fanime (but not my first convention, I've been to and helped run two games at Dundracon). And I had a blast.
I really enjoyed the Asian cinema and the pannel. I was thrilled to see that you were showing the Vengance Trilogy. I loved Oldboy but haven't had the oppourtunity to see the other two (Sympthay for Mr. Vengance and Lady Vengance). I could go on forever about the reasons why I appreciate Chan-wook Park directing style, but I'll leave that for another time. I also really enjoyed the programme that was on before it (I don't quite remember the name).
I also enjoyed the fact that there was adult entertainment. It was cool that there was something that caters to an older crowd. Yaoi Bingo, Bishi Pictionary... Those were fun. And I aloved how the lines were handled for Hentai/Yaoi nights.
However, nothing goes off without a hitch. I had a minor quibble.
Me and my BF were waiting in line for 2 hours on Saturday. While I understand that Saturday was the first full day of the Con, maybe they could have some extra registration booths to help expedite the line a bit faster. Also, while waiting in line (an hour in to the wait) there was someone with a megaphone talking about pre-registering. That's great, I love the idea of not having to wait to get in... but it was mentioned 2-3 times within a 20-30 min. span while we weren't moving. While that'll help next year, it didn't really help for those who were getting frustrated for having waited that long already.
But, mind you... that didn't sully my Con. I had a great time. Me and my BF are talking about coming next year...
Thanks for a wonderful Con.
My one lil other complaint about the con this year was the wait for our staff badges o.O It got pushed back like 2-3 hours XP Does any other staff member know what happened? ^^; Other than that I rather enjoyed the con during my shor breaks that I could get off from Stage Zero XD Met lots of cute girls too this year ^_^ So teh Oni is supremely happy!
Quote from: "darkstar"One point to Lawyer Girl:
I'm sure you didn't have one of these signs, but I saw quite a number of "HUG ME!" signs from the ladies.
Given the stereotypical lack of social grace of an otaku, some of them probably took it as open season.
Really? Well, then, I apologize. I didn't see any of those signs from girls. If you've got a sign then I guess you want to be hugged, but I didn't, and it was a little disconcerting to be hugged/kissed by strangers out of the blue! :P
Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Quote from: "lyricaldanichan"Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Masquerade:
Video Programming:
Not too thrilled this year. There were a couple Asian Live Action shows I enjoyed, but no much in the way of animé. I'm guessing something happened where fansub animé is no longer allowed to be played? Two years ago I was running from room to room all day to catch new animé I wanted to check out. Was much more laid back w/ only a couple shows I had to catch. This year, however, there were only 2 shows I wanted to see: one was the Shadow Chronicles preview that I missed because I was feeling ill, and the second was a typo on the schedule. -,-` All the rest of the animé that played was basically stuff I can just borrow from friends. *shrugs*
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We had fansubs running from video 1-8 which is spread out in the hotels and convention center. It sounds like you only watched the videos in the Marriot instead of going out in the CC (specifically across the marriot) and the Hilton.
What is strange about your complaint is that you have allready seen fansubs from your friends but then saying oh we are not showing them at fanime? HUH?
LOL
Maybe I did miss it. I spent a couple hours over the con looking through the schedule to find things to watch, but kept seeing shows that were already released out here. Berserk, Bubblegum Crisis, Kenshin, Akira, Guyver, Gankutsuou, Jin Roh, Tetsujin 28. I don't know, I guess the licensed stuff popped out more, though it may be that I couldn't actually read a lot of the names on the Sunday/Monday schedule....
We had a mix of anime but we did show a lot of fansubs. I am suprised you didn't check the program guide because the map shows all the video rooms inside the cover page.
Quote from: "LawyerGirl"Cons:
* Random gentlemen. Please stop asking for hugs and trying to kiss me in the hallways if I DO NOT KNOW YOU.
When this happen to me I asked the guy:
Would you like me to kick you in the balls?
They then go to the next person and make sure to avoid me for the rest of their life. Hmm I guess that is a good thing :O !!!!
Quote from: "LawyerGirl"Quote from: "darkstar"One point to Lawyer Girl:
I'm sure you didn't have one of these signs, but I saw quite a number of "HUG ME!" signs from the ladies.
Given the stereotypical lack of social grace of an otaku, some of them probably took it as open season.
Really? Well, then, I apologize. I didn't see any of those signs from girls. If you've got a sign then I guess you want to be hugged, but I didn't, and it was a little disconcerting to be hugged/kissed by strangers out of the blue! :P
I saw about a 50/50 on girls and guys. Thankfully I didn't see even a fraction of as many this year than years past.
Quote from: "LawyerGirl"Quote from: "darkstar"One point to Lawyer Girl:
I'm sure you didn't have one of these signs, but I saw quite a number of "HUG ME!" signs from the ladies.
Given the stereotypical lack of social grace of an otaku, some of them probably took it as open season.
Really? Well, then, I apologize. I didn't see any of those signs from girls. If you've got a sign then I guess you want to be hugged, but I didn't, and it was a little disconcerting to be hugged/kissed by strangers out of the blue! :P
No kidding I'm sure that would be quite a pisser. >.< Though often I don't agree with dani's quick turn to violence though in that case id suggest a quick punch or kick to the sensitive bits would be in order. (Id say kick to the nuts but sometimes its girls hugging girls.)
Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"My one lil other complaint about the con this year was the wait for our staff badges o.O It got pushed back like 2-3 hours XP Does any other staff member know what happened? ^^; Other than that I rather enjoyed the con during my shor breaks that I could get off from Stage Zero XD Met lots of cute girls too this year ^_^ So teh Oni is supremely happy!
I believe there were issues with the binders-- if you actually ended up getting your badge you know the one to which I am referring-- I think the person with them was first late, and then there were some unforseen confusions?
I don't know. But the staff badge line really made me mad with how stupidly it was laid out. However, I'm going to take that complaint elsewhere.
On the
Video Rooms and
Scheduling again. At '05 Fanime there were schedules on the video room posters. They told you what would be played
in that room and that room only. I found those more useful than the booklet because it had times and a brief synopsis. I didn't notice that this year. Was I just blind?.
Quote from: "E-Chan"
On the Video Rooms and Scheduling again. At '05 Fanime there were schedules on the video room posters. They told you what would be played in that room and that room only. I found those more useful than the booklet because it had times and a brief synopsis. I didn't notice that this year. Was I just blind?.
the signs and schedules were there. unless people stole the posted schedule AGAIN!
:evil: i hate it when people try to rip the schedules from the poster boards, when they can just look at it or even get their own from the info booth.
Quote from: "topnotch97"Quote from: "E-Chan"
On the Video Rooms and Scheduling again. At '05 Fanime there were schedules on the video room posters. They told you what would be played in that room and that room only. I found those more useful than the booklet because it had times and a brief synopsis. I didn't notice that this year. Was I just blind?.
the signs and schedules were there. unless people stole the posted schedule AGAIN!
:evil: i hate it when people try to rip the schedules from the poster boards, when they can just look at it or even get their own from the info booth.
I know there were signs, but I saw no sign of schedules. And by that I mean a sheet (or five) of paper that said "Friday ... [list of films] Saturday ... [list of films]... etc."
Quote from: "E-Chan"I know there were signs, but I saw no sign of schedules. And by that I mean a sheet (or five) of paper that said "Friday ... [list of films] Saturday ... [list of films]... etc."
We had these at all the Asian Film Rooms. Did you check the Asian Film Rooms? We always have schedules posted up, complete with summaries, running time, and pictures.
Quote from: "lyricaldanichan"
When this happen to me I asked the guy:
Would you like me to kick you in the balls?
Slightly off topic, but there was a person late Saturday night/Sunday morning who
asked to be kicked there. He was wasted, but that didn't stop people - he took about 20+ kicks, and that giant sword that Pyramid Head was carrying around to the crotch.
The drummer from UP HOLD tried to talk the guy out of it, but he was set on taking hits to 'home base'. XD And funniest of all, it was recorded.
Quote from: "Blue-Six"Quote from: "lyricaldanichan"
When this happen to me I asked the guy:
Would you like me to kick you in the balls?
Slightly off topic, but there was a person late Saturday night/Sunday morning who asked to be kicked there. He was wasted, but that didn't stop people - he took about 20+ kicks, and that giant sword that Pyramid Head was carrying around to the crotch.
The drummer from UP HOLD tried to talk the guy out of it, but he was set on taking hits to 'home base'. XD And funniest of all, it was recorded.
Damn... I need to see that video... That sounds like something that one of my friends would possibly do...
Quote from: "asianfilm"Quote from: "E-Chan"I know there were signs, but I saw no sign of schedules. And by that I mean a sheet (or five) of paper that said "Friday ... [list of films] Saturday ... [list of films]... etc."
We had these at all the Asian Film Rooms. Did you check the Asian Film Rooms? We always have schedules posted up, complete with summaries, running time, and pictures.
Probably I'm either just going blind or my sleep deprived brain didn't register their existance. Either way, that's the best (organizational) detail of the film rooms.
And as far as the crotch-kicking goes... wow. He wanted to?
Quote from: "angeljibrille"Quote from: "EternalMalachi"Which was the skit that won for best comedy?
It was the "yaoi" Hughes x Mustang skit (from Fullmetal Alchemist).
You can see all the awards here:
http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?t=4984
Ah, well, then I definately agree with the Judges on this one. I was helping out my friend with his rehearsal so I go to see a bunch of the skits early and that was definately one of the funniest skits.
In fact, I don't know if I liked the Maes x Roy skit more or less than the Gloomy's Clues as funniest skits of the show. Behind them, however, are the Gainax Boy skit and the Black Mage Wrestlemania.
Wii are Ninjas was funny, but not so much as the ones listed above.
Hehehe...
'Black Mage Wrestlemania' was also a sequel to a skit we (Team Flex) put on in 2003. ^_~
Quote from: "fullmetalneko"
No kidding I'm sure that would be quite a pisser. >.< Though often I don't agree with dani's quick turn to violence though in that case id suggest a quick punch or kick to the sensitive bits would be in order. (Id say kick to the nuts but sometimes its girls hugging girls.)
Yes, random violence is not really the way I'd want to go! Though I probably should have said something instead of standing there in shock. >_< This is the only year I've ever dealt with fanboy/fangirl attention, and I've been going to Fanime since 1998.
Quote from: "angeljibrille"Quote from: "happysky"
I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission. I just felt bad for her because she (as well as Eugene and JC) was really great, but not many people were paying attention.. which is fine because it was an intermission, but I think they deserve some kind of timeslot or situation where they can have a fully attentive audience!
This was probably the most bizarre thing that happened to me while running Fanime's Masquerade. There was NEVER intended to be an "intermission" -- none -- we were introducing the next performance, a set by Maiyu and Luno (her band) and it took a few moments to set up her equipment. Everyone on my staff was in absolute shock when everyone started standing up, talking, walking around, etc.... right in the middle of the performance. We were honestly horrified. I was running around the theater myself trying to get people to sit back down, especially the cosplayers who were wandering around with non-peace-bonded equipment which was completely prohibited and against various violations. When I went to go ask the union staff to bring the house lights down to indicate that this was not an intermission, I discovered the lighting/sound union theater staff had disappeared on a break-- they figured since everyone else was getting up that it was a scheduled break (even though it was not in our script or our program).
I remember Brian saying something about 'and now we'll take a bit of a break to listen to some music by Mayuu'--I don't remember exactly how he said it, but I'm pretty sure I remember him using the word "break" in her introdution. I'm sure he meant it as a break from the cosplay skits, but I think it was ambiguous enough that the audience took it to mean a literal break. I do agree that it really does disrupt the flow of the show to have a break in the middle, with all the noise and chaos it creates.
One thing I think would help in the future is making a note in the program guide about what the food policy is for Masquerade--going from 6-11pm goes right through dinnertime for most people, and I know by the end I was *soooo* glad I'd smuggled a bag of saki ika in with me and a bottle of water. I would have been *much* happier to have brought something a bit more substantial to eat if it were openly allowed, so that the performers didn't keep getting drowned out by the rumbling in my stomach. ^_^;
Thank goodness for Pita Pit afterwards--good, cheap food, open to 3am, and the cooks are into anime as well, discussing their favorite shows with the cosplayers who came in after the Masquerade. I wish I'd know about it in previous years!
On the whole, excellent job with the Masquerade this year! :)
The Pita Pit opened around September of last year, so this was the first year it was open for Fanime. :D
hope next year in fanime 2007! there will be more people
selling jrock cd and sell more mugs...
anyways does anyoned knows when is the redgistration 2007 starts...i think this time i will register early, so i can go with cheaper price :D
Quote from: "AMKestrel"Quote from: "angeljibrille"Quote from: "happysky"
I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission. I just felt bad for her because she (as well as Eugene and JC) was really great, but not many people were paying attention.. which is fine because it was an intermission, but I think they deserve some kind of timeslot or situation where they can have a fully attentive audience!
This was probably the most bizarre thing that happened to me while running Fanime's Masquerade. There was NEVER intended to be an "intermission" -- none -- we were introducing the next performance, a set by Maiyu and Luno (her band) and it took a few moments to set up her equipment. Everyone on my staff was in absolute shock when everyone started standing up, talking, walking around, etc.... right in the middle of the performance. We were honestly horrified. I was running around the theater myself trying to get people to sit back down, especially the cosplayers who were wandering around with non-peace-bonded equipment which was completely prohibited and against various violations. When I went to go ask the union staff to bring the house lights down to indicate that this was not an intermission, I discovered the lighting/sound union theater staff had disappeared on a break-- they figured since everyone else was getting up that it was a scheduled break (even though it was not in our script or our program).
I remember Brian saying something about 'and now we'll take a bit of a break to listen to some music by Mayuu'--I don't remember exactly how he said it, but I'm pretty sure I remember him using the word "break" in her introdution. I'm sure he meant it as a break from the cosplay skits, but I think it was ambiguous enough that the audience took it to mean a literal break. I do agree that it really does disrupt the flow of the show to have a break in the middle, with all the noise and chaos it creates.:)
Even before I stepped out to the stage to stall and announce Maiyo and Luno, the stage crew was setting up the equipment, people were leaving their seats and
the house lights went up. I was a bit puzzled and uttered "break" because of this happening. Marissa as well didn't expect the house light to go up and she reported backstage that the tech crew disappeared during this time as well.
Part of the difficulty with the Auditorium is the layers of staffing we have to endure just to get light/sound cues. There always seems to be a delay of a good five seconds or so before light go down/up and sound cues get done. This has been THE biggest gripe of mine for the past three years in San Jose. The venue (Union house rules) prevents us from doing our own tech. :(
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Part of the difficulty with the Auditorium is the layers of staffing we have to endure just to get light/sound cues. There always seems to be a delay of a good five seconds or so before light go down/up and sound cues get done. This has been THE biggest gripe of mine for the past three years in San Jose. The venue (Union house rules) prevents us from doing our own tech. :(
Oh, Brian, that's not true! We can use our own tech...
... for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! :evil:
GOOD
-Great costumes this year, especially the Winged elf and the Sephiroths.
-Friendly lower level staff
-No princess 69
-Hilarious AMVs, especially montage
-Abundance of pocky
-Dokkoida and Age of Chaos, nuff said
BAD
-Moronic upper management, as usual.
-Failure of some panels to show up
-My singing when one panel failed to arrive
-Eberron in the Gaming room
-No place to sleep
-Air conditioning always on
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Peace bonding. I still hold taht it is a socialist practice.
-food...
-As usual, held on the same weekend as Baycon and Kublacon.
-No enough anime music playing on loudspeaker
-TOO MUCH RAP MUSIC!
Suggestions:
-Add a communal sleeping area with 50 or so cots for roomless fanime atendees to sleep in. Always keep it darka nd turn the heater on. Also, some sleepy music would be nice, like the Crystal Theme or Real Folk Blues.
-More free form karaoke.
-Improv comedy.
-AMV Hell 3, nuff said
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
-Hold it on a non kublacon weekend
-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.
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Quote from: "kam_islash"GOOD
-Great costumes this year, especially the Winged elf and the Sephiroths.
-Friendly lower level staff
-No princess 69
-Hilarious AMVs, especially montage
-Abundance of pocky
-Dokkoida and Age of Chaos, nuff said
BAD
-Moronic upper management, as usual.
-Failure of some panels to show up
-My singing when one panel failed to arrive
-Eberron in the Gaming room
-No place to sleep
-Air conditioning always on
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Peace bonding. I still hold taht it is a socialist practice.
-food...
-As usual, held on the same weekend as Baycon and Kublacon.
-No enough anime music playing on loudspeaker
-TOO MUCH RAP MUSIC!
Suggestions:
-Add a communal sleeping area with 50 or so cots for roomless fanime atendees to sleep in. Always keep it darka nd turn the heater on. Also, some sleepy music would be nice, like the Crystal Theme or Real Folk Blues.
-More free form karaoke.
-Improv comedy.
-AMV Hell 3, nuff said
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
-Hold it on a non kublacon weekend
-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.
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I will tell you right now that chances are they can't set up a room with cots. That would be total madness. Besides, I'm sure the convention center has something against people sleeping there overnight. I mean, as part of an event. If you don't get a room, then you commute, or sleep in your car. If they do that chances are people will be like "Well I don't need to reserve a room" and then try to get the cots. Of course, they will be full and then there will be a whole bunch of confusion, etc.
And your rap/hiphop comment doesn't 'sound' like a generalization, it is a stereotype. Do I love it? No, but I don't think that's fair to the others who like that style of music.
Rap fan, guro fan, sadist, sociopath, rapist, theyre all the same to me.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. THat's a bit extreme....
Moronic Management? Do you have any idea how hard they work to get it done? I highly reccomend that you attend a staff meeting to see how hard these folks work just to make sure that you, as ungrateful as you are, have a good con. There were several members of that 'Moronic upper management' who sacrificed their entire cons just so they could make an attempt at giving about ten-thousand folks a good con so maybe you should think before you throw such a weighty insult around. It's moronic.
On Kublacon: Fanime's been around for much, much longer. The cons even moved to Memorial Day on the same year, so there's really no reason or case for that. Baycon was talked about at the Fanime when the move was made. It comes down to making a choice.
On places to sleep: Did you notice those two enormous buildings right next to the convention center? Those are called 'Hotels' and you can 'rent' 'rooms.' at them. They also have beds and, get this, showers (since I assume with your forgoing of sleep that you forwent washing yourself in anything but a bathroom sink)
On music: There was Anime music playing 24 hours a day in the convention center. It was just very quiet.
Quote from: "Tony"Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Part of the difficulty with the Auditorium is the layers of staffing we have to endure just to get light/sound cues. There always seems to be a delay of a good five seconds or so before light go down/up and sound cues get done. This has been THE biggest gripe of mine for the past three years in San Jose. The venue (Union house rules) prevents us from doing our own tech. :(
Oh, Brian, that's not true! We can use our own tech...
... for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! :evil:
Then explain the delays every year. There are Union people running the board directly on stage right and I am certain there was a union person at table in the back. Needless to say there were huge gaps in cues. Have things changed? Is it simply the vast size of the venue itself? Headset coms were in short supply again this year. Casey mentioned that to me. I am interested to know.
Quote from: "kam_islash"
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
very amusing rant....not very keen on details. Since I AM DIETER.. Doh!
I did do "some funny voices" as you call it. Perhaps you were out getting food.
Odd comment about no sleeping places....not the responsibility of the con to provide a bed and breakfast.
Interesting use of grammar too (no funny voices = no funny) is that new math??
Hard to please everyone, I guess.
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Quote from: "kam_islash"
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
very amusing rant....not very keen on details. Since I AM DIETER.. Doh!
I did do "some funny voices" as you call it. Perhaps you were out getting food.
Odd comment about no sleeping places....not the responsibility of the con to provide a bed and breakfast.
Interesting use of grammar too (no funny voices = no funny) is that new math??
Hard to please everyone, I guess.
Geez Dieter, can't you leave and bring somebody like Dieter in? tch...
Don't be too surprised, I've seen his 'rants' all over the place. About the same amount of energy and thought in each one. >_<
Well I did kinda walk out when I heard the lame roleplaying reason for your old character's abscence....and I didn't go back.
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Even before I stepped out to the stage to stall and announce Maiyo and Luno, the stage crew was setting up the equipment, people were leaving their seats and the house lights went up.
I'll totally vouch for this. There was as serious miscommunication with the union staff (who did not read the scripts we gave them -- I found the $5.00/each to print scripts completly unopened backstage after the Masq) and they just brought the house lights up and took off, even before Brian went out there to announce Maiyu-san and Luno. There was one person who stayed to run the mics, we had no lighting staff at all. We are going to ensure that something like this doesn't happen next year.
/marisa minor rant mode on
Also, I would like to note that I am NOT anti-Union, so I hope people don't think I am slamming on unions. These -particular- workers were completely inflexible, and just happened to be union staff and used the union guidelines to reinforce their inflexibility. It really cheesed me off :P We have happily worked with union staff at AX, PMX, and Anime Boston with no problems -- so this was a new one for us. Usually the union people do their job and do extra even -- in this case we practically had to give blood to get them to do anything. We will be brainstorming ways to fix this for next year.
/maisa minor rant mode of
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Then explain the delays every year. There are Union people running the board directly on stage right and I am certain there was a union person at table in the back. Needless to say there were huge gaps in cues. Have things changed? Is it simply the vast size of the venue itself? Headset coms were in short supply again this year. Casey mentioned that to me. I am interested to know.
Our stage manager, Casey (the ONLY guy who had a full handle on what was needed onstage and backstage), was not given a headset. So we had to communicate any changes through the Fanime Tech person on stage, who communicated it to Fanime techs in the back, who then commuicated it to the union staff. There's that 5 second delay. That really has to change next year, and that's something we need to obviously hash out with tech, because that was the core problem for any technical snafus was the "gap" time that Brian mentions -- as well as that having to communicate it through so many people ends up not getting the proper message out.
Duly noted and supported!
...
Yeesh. Running masquerade has been like trying to pilot a submarine, it seems.
Batten down the hatches...
...
batten down the hatches...
batten down the hatches...
Quote from: "Leishu"Duly noted and supported! Yeesh. Running masquerade has been like trying to pilot a submarine, it seems.
Heh, yah, but honestly at this point we are just complaining about minor stuff. The important things happend for our first year:
- STARTED ON TIME
- 41 performances, 11 walk-ons
- Contestants got to sit in the audience and see the event
- 3 special perfomances and a movie
- ENDED ON TIME
Did I mention the started on time and ended on time? :) For a first year running this particular con, that's what I wanted to achieve. Now we can focus on the minor ticky tacky crap for next year. So, we are whining, but overall it went really well! :) Imagine what the posts here would be like if we started an hour late or something...
Marisa
Indeedy. I always tend to keep an eye out for items that can be directly improved anyway. Cosplay, as always, has been a directly fulfilling event (despite my worries, which are never to be mentioned again, EVER! >_<), and, as always, has miles to go up if only for the virtue that there are comptetent and dedicated people making sure that it continues to do so.
I really enjoyed Fanime this year. The cosplay was awesome!
I was a bit disappointed with the dealer’s room. Usually I want to buy DVDs and wall scrolls, but hardly anyone was selling wall scrolls; I didn't find any good deals on DVDs either. One booth had DVDs for 20% off, but their DVDs priced higher, so with the 20% they were the same price as the other booths!
I loved most of the anime that was shown and I can't wait to get into the series that I enjoyed. The Funamation preview Friday night was great! I wish more distributors would do that. I found 3 series that I want to purchase in the fall.
The AMVs were lots of fun, although I didn't think they were as good as last year. The people yelling out insults were terribly rude. People put a lot of time in effort into them; even if you don't like it, keep your mouth shut!
Finally, I echo the call for female cut shirts! (Not only for the Fanime shirts, but in general.) I don't know how many adorable shirts I saw, but I didn't buy because they were male-cut. Girls like anime too!!!
Quote from: "kam_islash"Rap fan, guro fan, sadist, sociopath, rapist, theyre all the same to me.
Ohkay I don't know if you saw my post earlier in this thread but as part of the Stage Zero staff, I must apologize for that. For us hosts and staff that was COMPLETELY unexpected ^^; We had NO CLUE about a lot of the stuff that ended up happenin around stage zero because it was put on us LAST MINUTE. Us Stage Zero staff were going about things as originally planned but people kept coming up to us with soooo many cancelations and changes on the program schedule... so if things seemed crazie and a lil off, it wasn't our faults ^^; Like Rey-rey and I said earlier in this thread "Next up we have some awesome prizes to hand out----wait what?! :shock: An announcement? AGAIN?! XP" "Alrite everyone give a warm welcome to our guests----wait what? They can't make it? Another change?! ^^; *sighs*" and so forth...
I have to agree tho that the rap thing was outta place seeming at the con but that's a lil extreme to say here. I know a lot of people who are anime fans and rap fans. To compare rap fans to sadists and rapists and the like is just rude and prejudice. Please be respectful and considerate of others here on the boards.
Quote from: "kam_islash"
BAD
-Moronic upper management, as usual.
-Failure of some panels to show up
-My singing when one panel failed to arrive
-Eberron in the Gaming room
-No place to sleep
-Air conditioning always on
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Peace bonding. I still hold taht it is a socialist practice.
-food...
-As usual, held on the same weekend as Baycon and Kublacon.
-No enough anime music playing on loudspeaker
-TOO MUCH RAP MUSIC!
Suggestions:
-Add a communal sleeping area with 50 or so cots for roomless fanime atendees to sleep in. Always keep it darka nd turn the heater on. Also, some sleepy music would be nice, like the Crystal Theme or Real Folk Blues.
-More free form karaoke.
-Improv comedy.
-AMV Hell 3, nuff said
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
-Hold it on a non kublacon weekend
-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.-
There we go ANOTHER racist comment. I'd be surprised if a mod didn't warn you again. You seem to be a very MAD, ego blasting, chauvinistic unappreciative Fanime Con goer.
Staff works very hard to bring you the convention. This "moronic staff" you talk about is more capable than you. They work harder than you and bring you something you can enjoy and you bash them. How immature. With such an immature response, no one is going to take you seriously.
I agree with some of your points but not all.
NO place to sleep? Hmmm..that sounds like a personal problem not a Con problem. Hundreds of other people had money to get a room in the Hilton and the Marriot. And if i am not mistaken, they were not over booked.
The San Jose Convention Center is run by centralized A/C. You can't TURN IT OFF. You can only regulate the average temperature room by room. I suggest you wear a coat if its was too cold, and if it was too hot, move to a cooler room. -_-
Can't help the fact that cons overlap each other. Anime North was also held at the same time. Its memorial day weekend. Its ideal for events to go on.
Music was constantly playing, just too low, but its like that. Can't have blaring japanese music going.
Rap music? Yeah like i said, you stereotype people and seem very racist. I am not even gna give an excuse for this. I personally hate rap music, i see no artistic value in it, but i will not keep someone else to listen to it, plus hip-hop is extremely good dance music (2nd to Electronica).
Fanime Con might have a deal with the Hilton and or marriot to not provide such places to sleep (a small cot), as it will discourage Marriot and Hilton business. They wont want that. Yes it seems very capitalistic (tough), but if you can't pay for a hotel room then i suggest you find someone to room with.
Improve comedy? ehh..AMV contest only gets as good as the entries, it just so happens this year was not as strong as last year. If you want better comedy, go complain on AMV.org and get ignored.
AMV Hell 3? what? As far as i am concerned. Zarxrax did not submit this video. And there were plenty of comedy videos this year that copied Zarxrax's amv style of one liner comedy.
perhaps the internet is not for you...
Quote from: "milkmandan"Can't help the fact that cons overlap each other. Anime North was also held the same convention. Its memorial day weekend. Its ideal for events to go on.
Not to mention Anime Boston, Animazement, CostumeCon, and BayCon were all happening that same weekend. :shock: As much as I would've liked to have gone to any of those, the timing was bad. So I stuck with Fanime cos it's closer, and I've been going since 1994.
Quote from: "kam_islash"GOOD
-Great costumes this year, especially the Winged elf and the Sephiroths.
-Friendly lower level staff
-No princess 69
-Hilarious AMVs, especially montage
-Abundance of pocky
-Dokkoida and Age of Chaos, nuff said
BAD
-Moronic upper management, as usual.
-Failure of some panels to show up
-My singing when one panel failed to arrive
-Eberron in the Gaming room
-No place to sleep
-Air conditioning always on
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Peace bonding. I still hold taht it is a socialist practice.
-food...
-As usual, held on the same weekend as Baycon and Kublacon.
-No enough anime music playing on loudspeaker
-TOO MUCH RAP MUSIC!
Suggestions:
-Add a communal sleeping area with 50 or so cots for roomless fanime atendees to sleep in. Always keep it darka nd turn the heater on. Also, some sleepy music would be nice, like the Crystal Theme or Real Folk Blues.
-More free form karaoke.
-Improv comedy.
-AMV Hell 3, nuff said
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
-Hold it on a non kublacon weekend
-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.
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Just letting you know that our job as a convention is to provide entertainment for the members, not a place to sleep. It's your job as a member to find a place to sleep within your own hotel room or make your own arrangements at a friend's house.
If you feel that strongly about these changes, then become staff and implement these changes. Don't complain then expect us to take your "suggestions" seriously. This is especially true when you refer to the management as "morons". You are free to have your own opinion, but when you state your views in a childish light, it's hard to take anything that you say seriously.
Quote from: "kam_islash"Rap fan, guro fan, sadist, sociopath, rapist, theyre all the same to me.
While I am in agreement with most people on this board that the face of rap music and hip hop today is awful, there is no place for a comment like that on this board. There are many people who enjoy both rap music and anime, and they do not deserve to be insulted in this way.
The rap performance at Stage Zero this past Fanime weekend was quite a draw for many people, who obviously enjoyed it. I'm not going to lie and say that there weren't people who did not enjoy it, mainly due to the fact that they are not fans of rap music, but the ones that were there and enjoyed it were anime fans, just like yourself.
I find it ironic that people can make a statement like that, when there is such a mass appeal for rap, hip hop, and R&B in Japan. Artists like Koda Kumi, Heartsdales, m-flo, CHEMISTRY, and others are an example of this. Some of these artists even have their songs go on to become opening and ending themes to anime. I am sure they would be shocked and appalled if they were to discover that the people watching the anime that features their music believe them to be a bunch of racists and sociopaths. I'm sure Yoko Kanno would love to know that her music choices for Samurai Champloo has now grouped her into such a horrible group of people.
Look, there's probably no way to change your negative opinion on rap music or the people that listen to it, but the least you can do is to keep that to yourself. The last thing we need on this board is someone to insult the members of this board that like both anime and rap music, and we sure don't need comments like that to instigate arguments between yourself and other forum users.
I am highly dissapointed that a comment like that could be made on this board. You don't have to like rap music, but you don't have to make such a biased, prejudiced, and hateful comment towards the people that do. Had bad experiences with people that do listen to rap music? Okay. But don't take down all the rap-loving staff members, congoers, and members of this board by associating them with those bad experiences. After all, they're all just anime fans too.
Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"Quote from: "kam_islash"Rap fan, guro fan, sadist, sociopath, rapist, theyre all the same to me.
I have to agree tho that the rap thing was outta place seeming at the con but that's a lil extreme to say here. I know a lot of people who are anime fans and rap fans. To compare rap fans to sadists and rapists and the like is just rude and prejudice. Please be respectful and considerate of others here on the boards.
I agree, that is uncalled for. And there is a ceratin amount of etiquette that is used on anything that's social. And while I'm not a big fan of Hip Hop or Rap, I think you're statement, kam_islash, is unnecessary. It is a legitimate artform like any other. Sure, there are some bad apples, but stereotyping should not be OK. Not to mention, it's not like Hip Hop isn't getting Anime acceptance, take Samurai Champloo for instance.
Kitsune Oniko, sorry to hear that you got slammed with a lot of cancelations. Better luck to you next year!
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Ladies and Gents: Kamiswhatever is a troll now, so don't feed the trolls. If he acts up again, instead of a warning, it's going to be a ban.
:twisted:
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Yeah i wish there were also some more shooters, but i guess that can go in the e-gaming feedback thread.
but for the AMV judging. which part was biased?
To prevent biased judging they did create judges pick and viewers pick. Winning either of them is a very good feat. :\
RyuHayabusa! Spread the RM love! whats with the Rin siggy? why not Suigintou?!
Quote from: "RyuHayabusa"Ladies and Gents: Kamiswhatever is a troll now, so don't feed the trolls. If he acts up again, instead of a warning, it's going to be a ban.
:twisted:
To break up seriousness and give a little bit of humour:
But... but... I like feeding the trolls... I don't really need that arm, right? :wink:
Quote from: "phoenixphire24"Girls like anime too!!!
Wooty woot! Do we ever!
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Quote from: "kam_islash"
BAD
-Moronic upper management, as usual.
-Failure of some panels to show up
-My singing when one panel failed to arrive
-Eberron in the Gaming room
-No place to sleep
-Air conditioning always on
-New host character for mAsquerade not as funny as Deiter. No funny voices = no funny.
-Peace bonding. I still hold taht it is a socialist practice.
-food...
-As usual, held on the same weekend as Baycon and Kublacon.
-No enough anime music playing on loudspeaker
-TOO MUCH RAP MUSIC!
Suggestions:
-Add a communal sleeping area with 50 or so cots for roomless fanime atendees to sleep in. Always keep it darka nd turn the heater on. Also, some sleepy music would be nice, like the Crystal Theme or Real Folk Blues.
-Improv comedy.
-Bring back Deiter or at least SOMEBODY with a funny accent. California accent NOT funny. English accent funny. Australian accent funny. But NOT a "normal" accent.
-Hold it on a non kublacon weekend
-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.
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Two things I need clarification on.
1- How did you determine that Upper Management are morons?
2- How exactly is peace bonding a "socialist practice?"
Also, when it comes to complaining about not having a place to sleep or any food, all I can say is "Get a job, hippie!" I spent about $1000 total for the plane ticket over, the four nights at the hotel, food, cosplay, and gifts from the Dealers Room. And I only came from MN. There was a girl in the artist room who came from Ontario (if I recall correctly). There are plenty of us who are willing to save up to come to Fanimé over the others. If you are not willing, then go to some other con. On the same token, do not come to Fanimé and complain that you couldn't go to another con. Thats your choice to make.
I agree with you about how ill-placed the rap music was, but you comparing rap fans to rapists is idiotic and calls your own maturity level into question.
Oh, and Dieter will always be Dieter to me, whether he does the voice or not. ^.^` Great host. ^.^
Yes yes, I know we aren't supposed to feed the trolls, but this person reminds me too much of manofcorn, so I had to comment.
Quote-We're anime fans not hip hop loving, mysogynistic anarchist rapper types with no regard for culture whatsoever. Hiphop and rap do NOT mix with anime, please get rid of all rap, hiphop and death metal. Sorry if it sounds like a generalization, but most rap and hiphop is VERY mysogynistic, irreverant and violent.
Way to drive away the very large number of anime fans who are also rap fans, like myself. I will not be coming back to Fanime now.
OMG Samurai Champloo was created by satanic guro rapists! (sarcasm)
Please, not liking a genre is one thing. Being a Troll is another...
What about Parappa the Rapper...the most happiest side of Rap music.
"I gotta believe!"
Rap music is here to stay. Get over it. :wink:
And yes, I love my Rock, Jazz, Pop, Funk, Polka, Country, Electronic Music anime fans too.
Quote from: "EternalMalachi"I really loved the Karaoke winner as well as the music performance played during the intermission. That gal was soooo cute. ^,^`
Quote from: "happysky"I really enjoyed Masako's perfomance during the Masquerade intermission. I just felt bad for her because she (as well as Eugene and JC) was really great, but not many people were paying attention.. which is fine because it was an intermission, but I think they deserve some kind of timeslot or situation where they can have a fully attentive audience!
Thanks! Good to hear there were at least a couple of people who appreciated our performance! ^^ (BTW this is Eugene from Luno.)
Quote from: "angeljibrille"This was probably the most bizarre thing that happened to me while running Fanime's Masquerade. There was NEVER intended to be an "intermission" -- none -- we were introducing the next performance, a set by Maiyu and Luno (her band) and it took a few moments to set up her equipment. Everyone on my staff was in absolute shock when everyone started standing up, talking, walking around, etc.... right in the middle of the performance. We were honestly horrified. I was running around the theater myself trying to get people to sit back down, especially the cosplayers who were wandering around with non-peace-bonded equipment which was completely prohibited and against various violations. When I went to go ask the union staff to bring the house lights down to indicate that this was not an intermission, I discovered the lighting/sound union theater staff had disappeared on a break-- they figured since everyone else was getting up that it was a scheduled break (even though it was not in our script or our program).
I later found out that Fanime has traditionally had an "intermission" the past couple of years. The last Fanime Masquerade I attended was still at the old Santa Clara Convention center before they moved to the new SJCC, and we never had an intermission in Santa Clara, so I did not know that enough people expected an intermission. We almost did not make our cutoff time (11:00pm) because of this "intermission"- Maiyu-san had only planned for 3 songs and we already had people staged backstage for the next skit. Fortunately, there was not this confusion with the USA Musume presentation, but I feel awful for Maiyu and Luno about the situation that I couldn't do anything to "fix".
My sincere apologies to Maiyu and Luno and to the audience as well that there was this accidental miscommunication with the audience and obviously with the union staff. We will NOT be able to afford time for an "intermission" in the future with our limited schedule in the theater based on blocked union time, so instead of making it confusing by having a special performance in the middle, we are just going to slog through all the skits next year and put any special peformance at the end during the judging break.
My apologies to all,
Marisa
Masquerade Coordinator
Whoa, that was indeed
news to me, because even I thought our performance would be during an intermission... But perhaps that misunderstanding was a good thing which helped keep our spirit up: We did notice people moving around, chatting and even leaving but didn't get all disappointed and upset at it, because, "Oh well, it's an intermission!" :p
Thank you again for your help and support! ^^/
Eugene
P.S. Oh, and:
Quote from: "happysky"sorry, that might be her stage name? i couldn't really hear what she/the group was announced as, but i know her as masako through someone else.. ^^;
Yes, Maiyu is Masako's stage name.
To answer that fellow's questions
1) Because they screwed up things for the lower staff, and because two years ago they allowed one of the worst animes ever to be shown at H night. You know which one I mean.
2) Because its in violation of the second amendment.
I am not trolling I am speaking my honest opinions.
It just so happens that some people find it offensive.
I'm not about to be some kind of Politically Correct guy for the sake of a few people who might disagree.
Say what you will but that doesn't change the fact that rap and anime don't mix.
Just listen to some lyrics of rap and tell me that its in any way artistic.
Try telling me that Eminem encouraging people to hate their mothers and kill people is good.
Or what about how they frequently refer to women as bitches and hoes?
Quote from: "kam_islash"I am not trolling I am speaking my honest opinions.
It just so happens that some people find it offensive.
I'm not about to be some kind of Politically Correct guy for the sake of a few people who might disagree.
Say what you will but that doesn't change the fact that rap and anime don't mix.
I'm sorry but that's not a fact, that's your opinion. So please leave it at that, and don't speak for everyone.
QuoteJust listen to some lyrics of rap and tell me that its in any way artistic.
Try telling me that Eminem encouraging people to hate their mothers and kill people is good.
Or what about how they frequently refer to women as bitches and hoes?
Name ONE Eminem song that encourages people to kill their mothers.
Name one song about hoes.
I understand honesty and all but there IS such a thing as tact.
If you had a not-so-slim S.O., you wouldn't go around saying she's fat, right?
Who were those guys, anyway? I heard a little of them as I was passing by, but didn't recognize them. :o
is it possible to have constant updates for the events that change at the con?
you know how sometimes a video room will get its schedule changed around or something?
during the week of the convention can we have someone post these changes onthe website ahead of time
or even provide the memebrs with an updated schedule so that we know whats been changed?
i remember going to a video room, and had to READ the schedule changes right in front of the room. which got annoying.
Can we please pertain to feedback about the con.. and not other forum members?
I would like to know what we can fix about next year, and what was good about this year so that it stays in for next year :)
kam_islash: This is your 2nd warning from me. If you are going to post closet-minded comments, please do not.
To all other members:
Please give back on topic concerning the feedback to the con. If you guys have a problem with kam_islash, please take it off the board and through PM thank you.
Dude, theres more better Rappers beyond your MTV picks.
By being ignorant, you lose.
Try some real rappers like Biz Markie, Del the Funky Homosapien, Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda, Mountain Brothers and Chan.
...notice i also mentioned indie asian-american rappers...and they get respect in the african american community.
Hip Hop comes in many styles, and you're only choosing one style (Hardcore/Gangsta Rap) and ignoring the rest... NOT a good way in trying to win us OVER.
If you want to discuss further styles, we can in a mature respectful way. If not, you're trolling.
Above all, its more than music, it's ENTERTAINMENT. I don't see you hating on horror films or porn flicks.
I'm out, enough with trying to educate the ignorant and the racist.
:END RANT:
Back on-topic:
I conceptually loved Stage Zero. It seems to be the beginning of a really great and unique and, most importantly, fan-centric trend for Fanime. Its execution was shaky, but only because, quite honestly, it was an extremely experimental process. From the watcher and passerby's perspective I'd say it was a smashing success and I look forward to what new and exciting things the minds that created it can produce.
I don't remember where exactly, but I believe that Anime Improv was suggested. I've seen it done at a smaller con and it was pulled off quite nicely, for the most part. There was plenty of audience involvement as well, in the form of cheers and boos when the actors did not follow character. At the con I went to it was put in its own room, but I could see this being a Stage Zero activity.
And I really didn't pay much attention to Stage Zero, aside from watching a few questions at the Quick Draw game show thing.
I think that if Stage Zero is to continue then there should be a schedule of events and a synopsis of shows in the Fanimé booklet. And I don't mean to have full 24 hour schedules, but like key events every couple hours and random stuff in between, ya know?
personally, i didnt think stage zero was going to be really good. Boy, was i wrong. i ended up spending the majority of my time there, which caused me to miss a large number of panels. thats why i plan to be one of the hosts for nect year's Stage Zero. hopefully that happens.....
Did that "icon" (eye-con?) just explode the thread? :shock:
Feed back
Drallcome said : Having Hentai night every night was great this time!
Response : We are glade u liked it. We have fun bring it to you fans.
Darkstar said : I know you guys like to have a lot of different media formats, but you have to make sure that you have the machinery to work with it -- even if you get a bit submarined. Happened to the room I wanted to watch Friday morning and again for Midnight Madness.
Response : yes I know. We are so sorry about that. We will fix this problem so that next year you and everyone else won’t miss the anime they had there harts set on seeing. That is a promise!
Kazuko said : and it was a good idea to put that border for ID checking for the yaoi and hentai rooms :3
Response : yeah we do this so u can see whats playing in the rooms with the doors open and chose if u want to see it or not.
Uzutake said : For the yaoi marathons and such...Gakuen Heaven and Gravitation arent rated R or anything...they're Shonen Ai, not Yaoi. Maybe have a Yaoi marathon for people 18+ then have a Shonen-ai one for people ages...13+? Ionno, but I'm pretty young and LOVE LOVE LOVE yaoi.
Response : yes we know some titles are not 18+ but since some are we feel it needs to remain 18+. Also we are not in charge of hot yaoi nights. We leave this to experts so if u ever want to thank the people who do this pls thanks yaoi con. they do a great job every year!
EternalMalachi said : there was a mistake on Saturday night that said "Geneon Presents Akira 2." Got all excited for nothing.
Video Programming:
Not too thrilled this year. There were a couple Asian Live Action shows I enjoyed, but no much in the way of animé. I'm guessing something happened where fansub animé is no longer allowed to be played? Two years ago I was running from room to room all day to catch new animé I wanted to check out. Was much more laid back w/ only a couple shows I had to catch. This year, however, there were only 2 shows I wanted to see: one was the Shadow Chronicles preview that I missed because I was feeling ill, and the second was a typo on the schedule. -,-` All the rest of the animé that played was basically stuff I can just borrow from friends. *shrugs*
Response : hehe yeah that was my fault on the akira 2. what happen it was written in my notes akira 2hrs40mins. So when I cut it out I took akira and accidentally added the 2. so I’m sorry about that. Now as for fansubs u are just not looking for them cause if u ever gone to our website would have seen our awesome list of fansubs. http://www.fanime.com/video/view.php?cat=4 here is the link. We here at fanimecon pride our selves on the amount of fansubs we show. We have not forgotten were we come from. Also remember this we have the most video rooms then any other anime con.
U know it really hurts me when people say we don’t show fansubs or we sold out. we are a con that live for the fans and stand tall on our saying “by fans for fansâ€!
YoureMyHiro said : 3. A wide variety of screening rooms. It was great to ALWAYS have something to resort to if the dance ended or the Gaming crowd had died down and you just wanted to get in some good viewing.
Response: thank u! its so nice to know we were able to make u happy.
EternalMalachi : If the animé rooms could have a set up like the Live Action Asian Cinema rooms, with what show showing at what time w/ a brief little synopsis, that would be most helpful, I think.
Response : we wish we could do this but it would take up to much space since we have over 200+ tiltes showing during the con. But if u noticed we have all the info on the website. A lot of people printed out all the titles we were showing from there home computer. Just an idea.
FanFicGuru : Video Rooms- Good, some of them weren't that heavily guarded as far as badge checking, but for the most part it was checked. Good selection this year, and the Bleach marathon definitely was a hit as well. Bravo.
Response : well we don’t check for badges for the video rooms. We do how ever check for ids for events that 18+.
We are happy to to see you enjoyed the titles we were able to bring to you. And yes bleach was the bomb this year.
Kyokun : Decent selection of fansubbed anime. I was especially happy with Rozen Maiden.
Response: well what would make fansubs better for next year. We did show over 130+ fansubs. As for rozen maiden we are glade u liked it.
ip136 said : ++ I was sooooo happy about the whole previewing stuff on Thursday for the pre-reg people. Showing The Maxx was 'boss' and very 'rad'.
++ The viewing rooms were large and awesome. It was great the diversity of anime that was being played
response : yes someone went to our thur night showings. U like the uncut ver of the maxx? That had to be one of the best American animes ever made. It nice to see u liked the titles we showed. Did u see a lot of the anime u never seen before like studio 4 c, angel egg, or hell girl?
Zouri said : Viewing rooms: 5 Stars: Great Selection and large rooms. The Bleach marathon was fun and I was surprised to se Yakkate Japan there too (I didn't get to watch much though, I was dead tired). Air was definately fun to watch and the One Piece movies are always a blast.
Response : yes!! Another satisfied customer
Darkstar said : Back to video: Almost wish they'd have people (not all the time) at the Info booths, especially with all the fansubs, that one could go up to and say "I like X, Y, and Z animes. What do you recommend from all these fansubs..." Didn't watch as much as the anime itself as I would want to.
Response : well u could ask them Or the staffers at the video rooms. There’s some Food for thought.
LastElixir said : -Anime selection - I think this was a bigger issue imo. There were 2 huge flaws in the selection.
One being the selection itself. I understand that there are people with different tastes and understandings toward anime, lots of hardcore fans, old skool, newbies, the works. What I don't understand is why is there series like Yugioh being shown. I would definately call some of the selections made rather "low end", and could've been replaced with more quality series that people can gain from. Maybe it was just me, but it felt like there were more empty chairs than the last couple of times I went to fanime.
My second issue is, why so many marathons? Don't get me wrong, great series were marathon-ed like honey and clovers, school rumble and bleach. But I think theres limitations on how much episodes one person can take. It might have been better if more shows were shown in pieces rather than sets of 25. People can take breaks without missing anything. It kinda sucks if someone gets tired after episode 10 and have to miss the rest.
Response : well u have to understand we are trying to make lots of people happy. The yu gi oh eps were showing were from the 1st season from japan and if u were a fan of the ser u would know it was never shown here in the us cause they said it was to violent for kids.
As for the empty chairs if u stayed in the rooms u would notice they got filled over time. Now for the marathons, we do these for the fans of the ser. Its kind of a way for them to get together and enjoy the ser they love. Maybe exchange stories about what’s different between the tv ser and manga or about there favorite characters. Its Like I said its for the fans.
Milkmandan said : I know this is a stretch since only a minor portion of people will care, but for viewing anime that is NOT licensed. It would be nice if you guys put which fansubbing group's version of the anime you are showing. Its a little extra, but it does help those who care about groups translations and what not.
Response : we can see what we can do but this is the only complaint I have ever heard about this. If there is a big cry out for it will try to do it.
Wasteland said : My main complaint is about video rooms 6 and 7, which happened to be showing 90% of the anime I wanted to watch (yeah, I'm a shoujo addict). If there were more than around 10 people in the room, some of the people will not be able to see the subtitles, since the subtitles were at a lower height than where people's heads were, so I always had to end up sitting on the floor, or slouching a massive amount to the people behind me could see. If you're to use those rooms again next year, even though it would make the visible screen smaller, I'd recommend tilting the projector up, so that the bottom of the visible screen is just above top-of-head level, then most everyone should be able to see the subtitles comfortably. Anyway, it was still a nice improvement over the TV that was plugged in one of those rooms last year!
Response : haha u remember the tvs sets last year. Well this is the problem we run in to every year. I find it best to sit in the last seat near the center of the walk way or sit 2 seat back.
mDuo13 said : Video Rooms 6 & 7: Having projectors instead of TVs was great. Unfortunately, those rooms have rather low ceilings, so when anyone of somewhat average height or taller sat down, everyone behind him or her completely lost sight of the subtitles. It was extremely frustrating. I also encountered video problems in rooms 6 and 7 more than once: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha had terrible playback issues. It was like the file was corrupted, because it kept looping back, displaying artifacts, and stuff. Also, I went to see Hitsuji no Uta, and they didn't have the DVD at all, so they just showed more School Rumble. Okay, I have nothing against School Rumble, but it's a lot easier to find than HnU! Oh, also, I was upset when at 6am in Video Room 1, Macross came on instead of Haibane Renmei. I was hoping so bad for it, too!
Response : yes I know. We did have problems with the dvds players since they were not compatible with the avi file. We are really sorry about that and I assure u we are working on it so it doesn’t happen next year.
Glitch said : One big complaint I can't let go.Some of the viewing rooms didn't have the schedules up outside the doors.Which meant we didn't know if their had been a change in schedule.I came into one room expecting one thing and seeing another
Response : well they were but people steal them. Sorry about that. Will see what we can co about making it better next year.
E-Chan said : On the Video Rooms and Scheduling again. At '05 Fanime there were schedules on the video room posters. They told you what would be played in that room and that room only. I found those more useful than the booklet because it had times and a brief synopsis. I didn't notice that this year. Was I just blind?.
Response : we can see if we can do that next year. Remember though it cost a lot of money to do that and we do have 11 rooms.
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Then explain the delays every year. There are Union people running the board directly on stage right and I am certain there was a union person at table in the back.
I just explained. =P There's delays because we have to use the Union, and the only way not to use the union is to pay an arm and a leg or something.
OK here is a LARGE STRETCH suggestion. but damn if done, it would prove very nice.
I personally am the type of person that CAN handle browsing the web on my little phone with a 2 inch display.
SO with that said. would it be possible to create a mini Fanime Con website made for mobile web users, and this page be constantly, by the half hour, be updated with current changes?
For example a video room gets its schedule changed. Somoene with mobile web can check the Fanime Con site and see the schedule change.
The site doesn't have to be fancy, just something that is simple quick and informative.
I would totally go nuts over that >_<
QuoteEternalMalachi : If the animé rooms could have a set up like the Live Action Asian Cinema rooms, with what show showing at what time w/ a brief little synopsis, that would be most helpful, I think.
Response : we wish we could do this but it would take up to much space since we have over 200+ tiltes showing during the con. But if u noticed we have all the info on the website. A lot of people printed out all the titles we were showing from there home computer. Just an idea.
I meant to have it set up room by room. The live action rooms had individual schedules for each room and THOSE schedules had the synopsis. Basically, whatever was in LA Room 1 was listed on a big board outside LA Room 1. Why not have a set up like that for the rest of the video rooms?
Plus, since its not just a normal schedule, I don't think there will be as high a risk of people ripping it off. Unless of course the Live Action rooms had that particular problem and I just haven't heard about it.
anybody likes to watch k drama here!!!
i got addict to one of the korean drama
is called "im soory, i love u"
its very good!
i l\really like the singer in the story, he reminds my friend!!!!
hahahah!
they look hella alike!!!!!
I humbly thank everyone for the positive comments about Stage Zero. I also humble thank everyone for their constructive comments and suggestions to help improve Stage Zero in the future.
Stage Zero in its first year had its ups and downs, but from the many comments I have been reading, it has been an overall success.
Let me try to address some of the concerns:
We did have some ambient light issues during the day, and sometimes it was hard to see the screen, and hopefully we will be able to rectify this issue next time.
As for being annoying...I know I was a little like that, but hey, no offense taken. I had to be a little loud and obnoxious, because we were trying to get people to notice us. Happily, we've learned some valuable ways to bring an audience to our Stage.
I must give a lot of love to the other hosts and staff of Stage Zero. Many thanks for their hard work, especially our Stage Zero director, Sean Barber, who worked diligently to make sure things worked well throughout all four days of the convention, including pre-convention preparation, convention setup, and the ability to be versatile with all the changes that we put onto Stage Zero in coordinating with programming.
Programming was very tough to manage, as many things got rescheduled or cancelled, and moved about, or brought to us. Hopefully the staff will try to be able to rectify that issue, and I think an open schedule for Stage Zero would be something to consider, since our Stage was so random, partially by us, and by changes in programming. We constantly had people coming to us to make announcements for their panels and events, which threw us off our game big time. I know that we'll definitely try to find a way to get those announcements and changes without having to torture the hosts with sudden changes.
I don't believe that we currently need another host, because as far as I'm concerned, I would give much priority to the hosts of this year's Stage Zero as we were only in the first year of this experiment, and they deserve a second chance. I'd love to have Seanie back. If Rey-Rey was willing to trek up to our part of California, he's got a spot here. Also much love goes to Oniko, having busted her butt with stage direction, and even becoming an unofficial host of Stage Zero, and if she wanted to be a host again, her spot is reserved. What I really would like to see are more people to help Sean Barber and running the soundboards and technical stuff, because he was more overworked than us hosts (although it is a very draining experience). We just need helpers so that our hosts will be able to have their rest, or have time to be their usual chick magnets selves *coughRey-Rey&Onikocough*.
We did have some traffic issues with Stage Zero. We appreciate the call to have seating for our Stage, instead of having people sit on the ground, and we will try to find ways to make sure there is suitable space to walk around the audience should there be big events at our area.
As for the rappers for Stage Zero, I know that made for many complaints, due to some language that isn't kid-friendly. Much respect for Sean Barber and Jae Kinetic for holding it down for these artists. However, I do not have much negative feedback for this. As a person who appreciates anime and hip-hop, I do not have a problem with having hip-hop at an anime convention, but I'm sure the staff will work to make sure that it'll be a selection of artists that will appease the non-ignorant and open-minded Fanime crowds, or at least something that won't scare the little children. At least we could have had Shing02 (rapper who did opening for Samurai Champloo, and lives in Berkeley... just an idea)
I appreciate that people actually want to see J-rock, J-pop, J-hip-hop artists and their music videos on Stage Zero. I would love to show more of these music videos, but our resources are limited. That being said, if anyone is willing to provide us with Asian music videos, we'd be more than willing to take them in and, after screening them, we'd put them into the video rotation for our Stage. Like Jason said, we're not all anime music videos...
I wouldn't mind a J-rock/J-pop cosplay competition. That might be an idea to consider to have for next year. Then again, I think I speak for a majority of the hosts of Stage Zero: if someone is more than willing to cosplay as Koda Kumi and wants to perform for our Stage, I'M ALL FOR IT!!!! :lol:
Gaming tournaments would be cool, but I have to think about the technical issues for that, and I'll have to talk to the directors. It just, for now, would seem too much for technical support to handle, and I trust that the gaming room does a fine job hosting those tournaments.
People seemed to like the "randomness", and with the changes in programming for our Stage, we did our best to keep our audience entertained. We will try to bring more random games, and will try to find ways to entertain you with our antics and overall good times.
Once again, thank you all for making Stage Zero a success, and we hope that we can improve for next year. Keep the feedback coming, and we shall keep an open ear.
Oh, by the way, that guy who got kicked is okay, after speaking with him the morning after. He had a pretty nasty sore, after endless kicks, a sword hit him "there", and a superkick as hard as Vanderjagt kicking the winning field goal for the Pats.
I appreciate the props, Wendell. And kudos to everyone involved with Stage Zero and I know the shoutouts have been long overdue for you guys (that means all of you: Sean Barber, Oniko, Yuni, Eric, Seanie, Cheska, Rob Miles, Jason Ebner... if I missed any of you, apologies).
I also appreciate the fact knowing that I have a spot at Stage Zero for Fanime 2K7 but, truth be told, it's WAY TOO EARLY for me to even think about it. And considering I'm only taking it one convention at a time nowadays, I'm not even sure if I can give a clear answer to that even two months before Fanime 2K7!
Conventional wisdom tells me that I SHOULD give it one more try. But, yeah, a lot of factors get in the way (such as the aforementioned having to travel all the way from Long Beach AND the waning interest of going to anime conventions).
In any case, it was a pleasure working for y'all and I appreciate the hospitality Fanime gave me... despite the fact that I make fun of Northern California a lot. ^__^ v Just trying to be hella funny for some of the peeps out there. ^__^ v
Mr. Wendell & Rey-Rey, this one's for you:
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Rey-Rey: Your "$2 Vanishing Hand" looks cool in that pic. ;)
Man, how come I NEVER remember what I do in pictures?
It WAS a drunk-filled weekend for me, after all.
Quote from: "Rey-Rey"I appreciate the props, Wendell. And kudos to everyone involved with Stage Zero and I know the shoutouts have been long overdue for you guys (that means all of you: Sean Barber, Oniko, Yuni, Eric, Seanie, Cheska, Rob Miles, Jason Ebner... if I missed any of you, apologies).
I also appreciate the fact knowing that I have a spot at Stage Zero for Fanime 2K7 but, truth be told, it's WAY TOO EARLY for me to even think about it. And considering I'm only taking it one convention at a time nowadays, I'm not even sure if I can give a clear answer to that even two months before Fanime 2K7!
Conventional wisdom tells me that I SHOULD give it one more try. But, yeah, a lot of factors get in the way (such as the aforementioned having to travel all the way from Long Beach AND the waning interest of going to anime conventions).
In any case, it was a pleasure working for y'all and I appreciate the hospitality Fanime gave me... despite the fact that I make fun of Northern California a lot. ^__^ v Just trying to be hella funny for some of the peeps out there. ^__^ v
Hey Rey and Stage Zero Crew.
Major congrats on putting together and running Stage Zero. From the looks of things, you turned into a very valuable resource for the rest of the con by having to adjust your schedule to deal with other programming emergencies.
Rey, it was great to interact with you onstage and backstage at the Cosplay Spectacular. I know my son Tyler now is wanting to hang with you from now on. BTW, I know how a long distance relationship with cons can be on your personal time and finances. (oh yeah...I know that very well) Stay flexible.
Quote from: "Mr. Wendell"What I really would like to see are more people to help Sean Barber and running the soundboards and technical stuff, because he was more overworked than us hosts (although it is a very draining experience).
Having operated my own (home) recording studio for about 4 years, I think I can volunteer for the PA/SR system operation, at least on a part-time basis. :D
(And yes, it indeed requires a lot of patience. Many kudos go to Sean for that. :D)
Cheers,
Eugene
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Try some real rappers like Biz Markie, Del the Funky Homosapien, Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda, Mountain Brothers and Chan.
YOU FORGOT BECK! :twisted:
On Topic:
My friends who are in the mid-west/east coast area have a big following hosting
Anime Hell (http://www.animehell.org). Which is one of the best run midnite madness show you will ever see (YES THEY ARE THAT DAMN COOL). They never brought it over to the west coast and I personally would love it they get invited and to see their debut at fanimecon 2007. Check out their website -> http://www.animehell.org
Good times good times!
Quote from: "angeljibrille"Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Then explain the delays every year. There are Union people running the board directly on stage right and I am certain there was a union person at table in the back. Needless to say there were huge gaps in cues. Have things changed? Is it simply the vast size of the venue itself? Headset coms were in short supply again this year. Casey mentioned that to me. I am interested to know.
Our stage manager, Casey (the ONLY guy who had a full handle on what was needed onstage and backstage), was not given a headset. So we had to communicate any changes through the Fanime Tech person on stage, who communicated it to Fanime techs in the back, who then communicated it to the union staff. There's that 5 second delay. That really has to change next year, and that's something we need to obviously hash out with tech, because that was the core problem for any technical snafus was the "gap" time that Brian mentions -- as well as that having to communicate it through so many people ends up not getting the proper message out.
I was pondering things over the weekend and estimated the there were conservatively over 300 audio/light cues for cosplay. It is a very deamanding aspect to coordinating and running a live event, which does put many people in stressful positions. Factor the lack of a cue to cue rehearsal and new people this year for stage crew does add to the challenge.
The setup used for cosplay at the auditorium is set up ideally for the music event to handle/adjust the live bands (for the music concert program) and not for a more conventional performance event. Indeed, a four hour program is a marathon by any measure and does test the patience of all tech/stage crews. I'm not getting on anyone's case Tony. Just noting how things have changed since Santa Clara.
Quote from: "Rey-Rey"Man, how come I NEVER remember what I do in pictures?
It WAS a drunk-filled weekend for me, after all.
haha That was taken early Friday morning, before Stage Zero had begun to set-up. I think you two were jammin' to "Girl You Know It's True" and I was giving back-up with the "I!" that you hear often in that song.. :P
Quote from: "ADORABLEAZN06"anybody likes to watch k drama here!!!
i got addict to one of the korean drama
is called "im soory, i love u"
its very good!
i l\really like the singer in the story, he reminds my friend!!!!
hahahah!
they look hella alike!!!!!
i second that. love that drama....so much that all my impulse purchases all go to "i'm sorry i love you" drama, ost, and accessories XD.
Quote from: "Mach5Motorsport"Hey Rey and Stage Zero Crew.
Major congrats on putting together and running Stage Zero. From the looks of things, you turned into a very valuable resource for the rest of the con by having to adjust your schedule to deal with other programming emergencies.
Rey, it was great to interact with you onstage and backstage at the Cosplay Spectacular. I know my son Tyler now is wanting to hang with you from now on. BTW, I know how a long distance relationship with cons can be on your personal time and finances. (oh yeah...I know that very well) Stay flexible.
The guys behind Stage Zero should really get most of the credit. They kept it together when it was going haywire and should be commended for keeping cool heads.
It was also awesome to interact with you backstage as well, Brian. And I guess the secret is out that I like kids. =P Tyler is such a well-behaved kid.
And, actually, it was my first time back in Fanime since
2002. I was originally invited there in the first place because... well, I told you about it backstage. ^__^ v
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Okay... DeepBlueVibes...
Drumania was down graded, because the mother board got fired on Friday and the Vendor drove all the back to San Francisco to get another board that would work. Better to be down graded than not to have anything at all.
I asked the board watchers for what type of games they would like and only a few wanted a shooter game.
The gaming machines were not breaking down right and left and the reason I know, is because I was managing the room. The Vendor was on site. Only the plushee machine had issues, which were correcting as they came up.
$3.00 for a bottle of Snapple, yeah, that's expense, but did you notice that the machine was empty on Monday, expect for the water. You could have gone to the hotels and gotten it for half that price too. We don't control the price on the vending machines, the convention center does, or should I say their vendor for food services does, Center Plate. We already complained to them about it, but it fell on deaf ears.
Craige...
Thanks for the info and sorry for the troll feeding, Craige. x.x
Quote from: "Leishu"Thanks for the info and sorry for the troll feeding, Craige. x.x
I pulled my thread post, because it just was feeding his ego...
Craige...
I just noticed that... I guess I'm one of a lucky few who saw it, hehe. ^_^
Hopefully we can keep things learning towards constructive criticisms and awesome new ideas on how to improve our con. :D
Oh, I wanted to make a comment about the "Peace bonding = socialism" thing.
I think it is a little farfetched to try to claim that costume props are covered under "Right to bear arms."
Fanimé is a private organization, as in not government run, and so they have the option of curtailing such things as freedom of speech and right to bear arms. If you disagree with their rules, then you can choose not to attend the con. That is democracy in action.
The problem with weapon props is that some are so realistic as to pose a problem for the public and law enforcement. That is the whole reason why airsoft have orange tips and all toy guns come in wild and crazy colors instead of standard gunmetal black/silver. If some cosplayer is waving a prop weapon in a menacing fashion, then it puts any law enforcement present in a tough situation as to whether to react as if it was a toy or a real weapon. If its not a toy but they do not react, the cop failed to respond. If it is a toy and the cop blasts you in half, its excessive use of force. Peacebonding is a simple way to avoid such serious issues.
Also, the local residents and businesses have a say in what goes on at the convention center. If they do not like the idea of a bunch of teen through adults walking around town in costume wielding weapons that may or may not be seen as props, then they can complain and Fanimé can get booted from the venue. In order to avoid such a situation, Fanimé puts rules in place to keep any disturbances to a minimum which in turn allows us to have our convention.
And now a question for the staff: I know last year there was the Sasuke Thief and the missing hotel sign letters incidents, so was there anything like that this year? Were there any complaints from the town or hotels?
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Quote from: "milkmandan"OK here is a LARGE STRETCH suggestion. but damn if done, it would prove very nice.
I personally am the type of person that CAN handle browsing the web on my little phone with a 2 inch display.
SO with that said. would it be possible to create a mini Fanime Con website made for mobile web users, and this page be constantly, by the half hour, be updated with current changes?
Funny, I actually flirted with that idea way back in 2003 when I was working the info desk. I even created a prototype dynamic webpage (now defunct) that had the entire Fanime 2003 schedule stored in a mysql database. The project was a pure exercise for me to practice my skillz and I knew that if it was ever going to be implemented it won't be till 10 years later. I even joked with Tony (the webmaster) "When are we going to get a dynamic webpage with real time updates?" He laughed knowing full well that I knew that he knew that I was obviously joking.
Fast forward today. Sorry milkmandan, the timing is not right. There's not enough people with mobile internet access to justify such a project. However I am absolutely convinced that their will come a day (maybe 7 years from now) when Fanime has a dynamic webpage for schedules.
In the future you will be able to check for Fanime schedule updates on your cell phone much like how you can check stock quotes on websites today. When there's a change in scheduling, say video programming. A VP staffer will simply use a cell phone to log into the Fanime server and make schedule updates. A record of who made the update, what time, and exactly what event was updated will be recorded. Anybody with mobile net access (basically the majority of the population) will have access to real time information.
Who's going to design this system? Don't look at me, I'll be retired in 7 years. If I do decide to go to Fanime 2013, I'll go as an attendee and not a staffer. I'll sit back, relax, and reminiscence of the good old days when Fanime didn't even have an online schedule!......let alone a dynamic schedule.
:wink:
In response to having a dynamic webpage for schedules:
We were, and are currently understaffed. All of the people who have the skills and ability to do what you're asking are really swamped with trying to make necessary changes (e.g. programming the webpage so that members can pay via credit card).
If you would like to help implement these changes, then by all means become staff and help out! I'm sure all the other members out there would greatly appreciate your contribution.
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What you didn't see about the Drum game was that while they (the vendors) were there it continued to fail, I was there, watching it start losing its mind, as the game couldn't recover from a failure in the logic processor and finally the motherboard attempted several reboots only to reveal an error code in the start up sequence. Hence the reason that the motherboard failed. As for the other products that you pointed out, seven people I questioned about whether it interfered with their performance on the game, said no, not really to it made little difference in the actual performance. You experienced a different level of performance than what they experienced.
As for next year, I will make the request of the vendor to supply more shooter games and a different variety of them too.
As to the issues of the games being down and not working, now you point out that they were working, but there were issues with specific function keys, okay, but who did you report them to? I wasn't me! Eric and his partner didn't get the reports either, so who were you reporting them to? I'm interested in knowing who was holding all these reports.
Next year, the decision, which was mine, is to assign someone to walk around the room, have a table there and await the reports of down machines. They will keep the Plushee machine filled, check the coin return machines and ensure that everyone is playing nicey with the games and those waiting. When issues are brought to their attention they will upchannel those reports to Eric, the Vendor and hopefully we will have a list on site that will state the nature of the issue and a resolution time. That's about the best that I can offer.
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Most of my feedback can be found on my "conclusion" part of my con report:
http://scarlet-rhapsody.com/traveling/fanime2006/final.htm
I originally posted something here, but it got deleted. The gist of it is all in the above website.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I would say that the staff has been busy reading the posts but I'm sure that you've seen them post (even if you only read one page!).
Next year, the FanimeCon staff promise bigger and better things. All excuses aside, keep all of the positive comments coming. Just please don't assume that:
A) Fanime has a million extra dollars lying around.
B) Your opinions and such are fact. It's ok to give us your opinions, but please keep it PG.
Notes for current and future attendees:
1) Fanime management always pays attention to what happens before, during, and after the convention. There are staffers (like myself :P) that work year-round. Ask anyone that has emailed registration@fanime (there's a 1/5 chance that I answered your email personally) or my email (milton@fanime). If you have a suggestion, post it in the suggestions forum or in threads like these. This is how we get events and ideas like Stage Zero, a bigger e-gaming and arcade room, more dealers, etc.
2) If you have a problem, ask a staff member for help. If that staff member is being rude to you, get his badge number. For all staff and attendees, the badge number is a four digit alphanumeric digit on the left side of the badge (if it's laminated) or on the bottom left (if it's not laminated). The number was put there so reports of harassment (and etc.) could be reported without having to remember a person's full name.
--
Ok, now to answer concerns that relate to any department that I handle (as I don't want to step on the other two division head's toes and answer their questions):
- Schedules: As PimpstressRei (Department Head - Publications) said, schedules will be in a bigger font next year (huge compared to this year ;)). Fluffy died and we had no back-up plan. DOH! Bad planning on my behalf. Jason (Division Head - Programming) already promised that we would have schedules two weeks before Fanime '07. If he doesn't stick to his words, I will have a public grilling on Stage Zero. Oh wait, he has ultimate say on what happens at Stage Zero... so uhh... I'll "try" to have one. Hopefully, we won't have to think about that at all.
- Registration: We are adding on two booths next year. I believe that we will be at our limit of booths in the registration area. Two booths equals four more staffers able to take registration. Hopefully, this will short the lines down to an even more respectable level. This year, we shortened the lines down by at least two hours from Fanime '05. No excuses, just facts. If you have any suggestions on how to get the lines down even further, please post here or email registration@fanime
Just so you guys know, if you ever have a suggestion for staff, you could always reply to this thread, make a thread on the "suggestions" board, or email them (their email address is always departmentname@fanime.com).
Enjoy! =)
Quote from: "MPLe"Jason (Division Head - Programming) already promised that we would have schedules two weeks before Fanime '07. If he doesn't stick to his words, I will have a public grilling on Stage Zero. Oh wait, he has ultimate say on what happens at Stage Zero... so uhh... I'll "try" to have one.
What you do in the event of this happening is a "hit-and-run" on Stage Zero: "By the way, I'd like to make a semi-official announcement that...about the schedules? It's all Jason's fault!!" -- followed by a quick escape towards the office or video room of your choice.
To quote from mah kuya wendell:
"I don't believe that we currently need another host, because as far as I'm concerned, I would give much priority to the hosts of this year's Stage Zero as we were only in the first year of this experiment, and they deserve a second chance. I'd love to have Seanie back. If Rey-Rey was willing to trek up to our part of California, he's got a spot here. Also much love goes to Oniko, having busted her butt with stage direction, and even becoming an unofficial host of Stage Zero, and if she wanted to be a host again, her spot is reserved. What I really would like to see are more people to help Sean Barber and running the soundboards and technical stuff, because he was more overworked than us hosts (although it is a very draining experience). We just need helpers so that our hosts will be able to have their rest, or have time to be their usual chick magnets selves *coughRey-Rey&Onikocough*. "
While it was tiring at times and A LOT of work, I loved the rush and I am sure you could tell I was havin fun with it at the same time ^_~ I so would love to help out again of course for Stage Zero next year! =D There is no doubt about that lol! As for the chick magnet thing *has evil grin* I've NO CLUE what you are talkin bout ^_~ >:D
"I appreciate that people actually want to see J-rock, J-pop, J-hip-hop artists and their music videos on Stage Zero. I would love to show more of these music videos, but our resources are limited. That being said, if anyone is willing to provide us with Asian music videos, we'd be more than willing to take them in and, after screening them, we'd put them into the video rotation for our Stage. Like Jason said, we're not all anime music videos...
I wouldn't mind a J-rock/J-pop cosplay competition. That might be an idea to consider to have for next year. Then again, I think I speak for a majority of the hosts of Stage Zero: if someone is more than willing to cosplay as Koda Kumi and wants to perform for our Stage, I'M ALL FOR IT!!!! "
SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME!! XDD We also should showcase Jpop and Jrock n MV's because Japan's culture is NOT JUST anime! (I should know, being part Japanese myself ^^;...) And kuya? XD You remembered that lil idea we had about like cosplayin as famous jpop stars or what not?! I said I would soooo do that if more ppl were willing to participate too! ^_~ I do know all of Koda Kumi's MV's and dances by heart after all and I do know her outfits very well X3 <3
To quote now from my kuya rey:
"I appreciate the props, Wendell. And kudos to everyone involved with Stage Zero and I know the shoutouts have been long overdue for you guys (that means all of you: Sean Barber, Oniko, Yuni, Eric, Seanie, Cheska, Rob Miles, Jason Ebner... if I missed any of you, apologies)...."
Thank you to all of you guys too! It was awesome crazy fun! ^_~ <333
~Oniko <3
Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"
While it was tiring at times and A LOT of work, I loved the rush and I am sure you could tell I was havin fun with it at the same time ^_~ I so would love to help out again of course for Stage Zero next year! =D There is no doubt about that lol! As for the chick magnet thing *has evil grin* I've NO CLUE what you are talkin bout ^_~ >:D
You may not have any clue...but I have
PICTURES!!! :twisted: Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"
SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME!! XDD We also should showcase Jpop and Jrock n MV's because Japan's culture is NOT JUST anime! (I should know, being part Japanese myself ^^;...) And kuya? XD You remembered that lil idea we had about like cosplayin as famous jpop stars or what not?! I said I would soooo do that if more ppl were willing to participate too! ^_~ I do know all of Koda Kumi's MV's and dances by heart after all and I do know her outfits very well X3 <3
You are so going to dance to "Juicy." :twisted:
fanime 2007, i cant wait, hope this year will have better guests than last yr
The only suggestion I can think of is more food booths like the sushi and teriyaki booth! Didn't they run out by like Sunday or Saturday and not come back? I would've loved to have more options than nachos, pocky, or walking down the street for fast food.
Quote from: "Nana"The only suggestion I can think of is more food booths like the sushi and teriyaki booth! Didn't they run out by like Sunday or Saturday and not come back? I would've loved to have more options than nachos, pocky, or walking down the street for fast food.
We Need a Maid Cafe
Quote from: "MPLe"Thanks for the feedback everyone. I would say that the staff has been busy reading the posts but I'm sure that you've seen them post (even if you only read one page!).
Next year, the FanimeCon staff promise bigger and better things. All excuses aside, keep all of the positive comments coming. Just please don't assume that:
A) Fanime has a million extra dollars lying around.
B) Your opinions and such are fact. It's ok to give us your opinions, but please keep it PG.
Notes for current and future attendees:
1) Fanime management always pays attention to what happens before, during, and after the convention. There are staffers (like myself :P) that work year-round. Ask anyone that has emailed registration@fanime (there's a 1/5 chance that I answered your email personally) or my email (milton@fanime). If you have a suggestion, post it in the suggestions forum or in threads like these. This is how we get events and ideas like Stage Zero, a bigger e-gaming and arcade room, more dealers, etc.
2) If you have a problem, ask a staff member for help. If that staff member is being rude to you, get his badge number. For all staff and attendees, the badge number is a four digit alphanumeric digit on the left side of the badge (if it's laminated) or on the bottom left (if it's not laminated). The number was put there so reports of harassment (and etc.) could be reported without having to remember a person's full name.
--
Ok, now to answer concerns that relate to any department that I handle (as I don't want to step on the other two division head's toes and answer their questions):
- Schedules: As PimpstressRei (Department Head - Publications) said, schedules will be in a bigger font next year (huge compared to this year ;)). Fluffy died and we had no back-up plan. DOH! Bad planning on my behalf. Jason (Division Head - Programming) already promised that we would have schedules two weeks before Fanime '07. If he doesn't stick to his words, I will have a public grilling on Stage Zero. Oh wait, he has ultimate say on what happens at Stage Zero... so uhh... I'll "try" to have one. Hopefully, we won't have to think about that at all.
- Registration: We are adding on two booths next year. I believe that we will be at our limit of booths in the registration area. Two booths equals four more staffers able to take registration. Hopefully, this will short the lines down to an even more respectable level. This year, we shortened the lines down by at least two hours from Fanime '05. No excuses, just facts. If you have any suggestions on how to get the lines down even further, please post here or email registration@fanime
Just so you guys know, if you ever have a suggestion for staff, you could always reply to this thread, make a thread on the "suggestions" board, or email them (their email address is always departmentname@fanime.com).
Enjoy! =)
I know this is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway. Have you thought of making a factory type line like at the AX? You know, the first booth takes the con-goer's money, next prints out the badges, next hands out the goody bags with stuff in them, etc.???
I thought I was a pretty dedicated otaku, but I was embarrassed to learn that I didn't know most of the guests who came this year! I would love to meet the guests and get their autographs, but only after I learn a little more about them so I don't look too stupid. lol
Quote from: "Rufus Shinra"I know this is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway. Have you thought of making a factory type line like at the AX? You know, the first booth takes the con-goer's money, next prints out the badges, next hands out the goody bags with stuff in them, etc.???
Hey, not a bad idea. Pipeline it!
Great, computer engineering comes back to haunt me...
Quote from: "Rufus Shinra"I thought I was a pretty dedicated otaku, but I was embarrassed to learn that I didn't know most of the guests who came this year! I would love to meet the guests and get their autographs, but only after I learn a little more about them so I don't look too stupid. lol
My suggestion is to check the website, and then check out what our guests have worked on. The wildcard is, of course, Yamaga-san... he's had a hand in everything GAINAX and then some...
Why do I keep seeing porn listed on this website? That's not what it's about! Can you guys please cut these diseased people off???
Spambots. Just ignore them. Don't post in their topics.
Quote from: "Barnes"Spambots. Just ignore them. Don't post in their topics.
No problem there! Thanks.
Feedback for 2006? I'd rather not indulge to prevent any injury to anyones pride or face.
Granted, I came from the days when fanime was about 1/10th the size of what it is now, when dealers rooms only had imported items with anime plastered on the floors, walls, and ceilings, and you had to wait 2 hours in line in the rain (yes,it rained that year and the line went OUTSIDE!!!! Only old-timers would remember this) just to get in.
Granted, not as old-timer-ish as some other people, but since I didnt move here since 96 I'm doing okay :wink:
All I have to say is... Fanime isn't what it used to be. :(
i think fanime 2006 needed more fan involvement, like maybe fanart/cosplay contests.
I have to agree. I remember past Fanime Con conventions where there were (if I reall correctly, which I might not) 2 dealership rooms that were nearly all full. 2006's con I think turned one of those rooms into the game room, and the one dealership room was half empty. I'm not asking for the staff to go ballistic trying to find dealers, but if that's not possible at least there should be decorations around. As stated above, a lot of fan involvement such as fanart and things around the walls would make it a lot better.
Also the artist's room seemed also very empty. I prefered it outside in the main area which was left empty except for a stage. For me it was more enjoyable to glance at artists' tables as I walked from one room to another.
Overall I had to say I didn't enjoy 2006's con as well as the previous years. I didn't get that feeling of activeness and enthusiasm as I usually did.
Oh, and I also wonder wanted to know why the convention was moved to the San Jose convention center from the Santa Clara one.
As far as I know, Santa Clara CC was getting too crowded for Fanime. It needed more room, so that is why it moved.
Quote from: "koella"I have to agree. I remember past Fanime Con conventions where there were (if I reall correctly, which I might not) 2 dealership rooms that were nearly all full. 2006's con I think turned one of those rooms into the game room, and the one dealership room was half empty. I'm not asking for the staff to go ballistic trying to find dealers, but if that's not possible at least there should be decorations around. As stated above, a lot of fan involvement such as fanart and things around the walls would make it a lot better.
Also the artist's room seemed also very empty. I prefered it outside in the main area which was left empty except for a stage. For me it was more enjoyable to glance at artists' tables as I walked from one room to another.
Overall I had to say I didn't enjoy 2006's con as well as the previous years. I didn't get that feeling of activeness and enthusiasm as I usually did.
Oh, and I also wonder wanted to know why the convention was moved to the San Jose convention center from the Santa Clara one.
I agree the 2006 Fanime Con was a bit more empty than last year's, but the space will surely fill up in the next years. And I really enjoyed the location of the hotels attached to the Fanime Con. I used a wheelchair and it was way easier to go directly from the hotel floor to the convention so I've got no problems there! ^-^ I am hoping that more artists will be able to fill the Artist's Alley though. It seemed rather sadly empty.
Quote from: "Mr. Wendell"Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"
While it was tiring at times and A LOT of work, I loved the rush and I am sure you could tell I was havin fun with it at the same time ^_~ I so would love to help out again of course for Stage Zero next year! =D There is no doubt about that lol! As for the chick magnet thing *has evil grin* I've NO CLUE what you are talkin bout ^_~ >:D
You may not have any clue...but I have PICTURES!!! :twisted:
Quote from: "KitsuneOniko"
SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME!! XDD We also should showcase Jpop and Jrock n MV's because Japan's culture is NOT JUST anime! (I should know, being part Japanese myself ^^;...) And kuya? XD You remembered that lil idea we had about like cosplayin as famous jpop stars or what not?! I said I would soooo do that if more ppl were willing to participate too! ^_~ I do know all of Koda Kumi's MV's and dances by heart after all and I do know her outfits very well X3 <3
You are so going to dance to "Juicy." :twisted:
*GASPS* I thought I burnt all those pics?! XDD lol j/k j/k ^^ But really, I don't think I am THAT much of a "chick magnet" :oops: And "juicy"? I really like "trust you" "XXX Feat. Soulhead" and "Selfish" "Chase" isn't bad either tho ^_~
I was sort of disappointed in music. I thought it was a little less exciting than last year. And why can't we include Korean artists in Music fest? Who say's anime is only about Japanese anime(There's nothing wrong with that) but I mean some korean anime's are really good as well, why not include them?
This was my first year but I thought it was awesome. Probably my only real complaint is I was under the impression the masqurade would be recorded and we would have access to said recordings but here it is 6 months later and I still haven't heard anything